Weather data were collected by the National Weather Service in International Falls, Minnesota. International Falls is about 80 miles from the SNF, but the weather data are representative of the area. Total solar insolation measurements were made at Fall Lake Dam in Winton, Minnesota, by Prof. Donald Baker of the Department of Soil Science at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Insolation values were measured using a Yellow Springs solar cell calibrated against an Eppley Pyranometer.
NWS Daily Climatology Data: 1983 (SNF).
Weather data were collected by the National Weather Service in International Falls, Minnesota. International Falls is about 80 miles from the SNF, but the weather data are representative of the area. Total solar insolation measurements were made at Fall Lake Dam in Winton, Minnesota, by Prof. Donald Baker of the Department of Soil Science at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Insolation values were measured using a Yellow Springs solar cell calibrated against an Eppley Pyranometer.
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Daily temperature (minimum, maximum, average), precipitation, insolation.
Daily weather data for the years 1972 through 1990 are stored in a collection of data sets with each data set containing one year's data, plus a data set including the entire data collection. The data set names are in the form:
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Dr. Forrest G. Hall
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. K. Fred Huemmrich
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Donald E. Strebel
Versar, Inc.
Dr. Scott J. Goetz
University of Maryland
Ms. Jamie E. Nickeson
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Ms. K. D. Woods
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Celeste Jarvis
NASA Headquarters
Biophysical, Morphological, Canopy Optical Property, and Productivity Data on the Superior National Forest.
Dr. Forrest G. Hall
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Fax: +1 (301) 614-6659
Telephone: +1 (301) 614-6695
E-mail: fghall@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Meteorological Station.
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Daily temperature (minimum, maximum, average), precipitation, insolation.
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Weather data were collected by the National Weather Service in International Falls, Minnesota. International Falls is about 80 miles from the SNF, but the weather data are representative of the area.
This data set contains meteorological data collected during 1983.
Variable Name/ Long Name SAS Type Generic Type Description
1 location LOCATION $ 24 CHAR(20) "Location of Recording Station"
2 obs_datc OBS_DATE $ 12 DATE "The date of the observations, in the format (DD-MMM-YY) (eg. 01-jan-90)"
3 temp_min MIN_TEMP 8 NUMBER(6,1) "Daily minimum temperature (F)"
4 temp_max MAX_TEMP 8 NUMBER(6,1) "Daily maximum temperature (F)"
5 temp_avg AVG_TEMP 8 NUMBER(6,1) "Daily average temperature (F)"
6 precip PRECIP 8 NUMBER(7,2) "Precipitation: total daily water equivalent (inches)"
7 gdd GDD 8 NUMBER(5,0) "Growing (heating) degree days accumulated for that day calculated from the sine wave method. A base value of 40 degrees (F) was used."
8 t_solar TOTAL_SOLAR 8 NUMBER(5,1) "Total daily solar irradiance (Langleys) recorded by a Yellow- Springs solar cell at Winton, Minnesota"
9 rel_hum REL_HUM 8 NUMBER(6,1) "Relative humidity (%) as measured daily at 1400 local time"
location obs_datc temp_min temp_max temp_avg precip gdd t_solar rel_hum
"Fall Lake Dam, MN" "01-JAN-83" . . . . . 73.3 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "02-JAN-83" . . . . . 158.6 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "03-JAN-83" . . . . . 77.5 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "04-JAN-83" . . . . . 25.9 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "05-JAN-83" . . . . . 80.8 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "06-JAN-83" . . . . . 9.5 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "07-JAN-83" . . . . . 15.6 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "08-JAN-83" . . . . . 27.3 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "09-JAN-83" . . . . . 19.1 . "Fall Lake Dam, MN" "10-JAN-83" . . . . . 19.2 .
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Data are sorted by observation date (obs_datc) and location (location). Key fields in each record are location and obs_datc.
Each data set consists of a single ASCII file containing climatology data for each location for an entire year, except in the case of "NWS Daily Climatology Data: 1972-1990" which contains the climatology data for the entire period 1972-1990.
A general description of data granularity as it applies to the IMS appears in the http://daac.ornl.gov.
The Superior National Forest Data are available from the ORNL DAAC. Please contact the ORNL DAAC User Services Office for the most current information about these data.
Available via FTP or on CD-ROM.
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Contact the ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (see the Data Center Identification Section).
A general glossary is located at EOSDIS Glossary.
A general list of acronyms is available at http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html.
October 17, 1996 (citation revised September 23, 2002)
February 4, 1997.
ORNL-SNF_MET_1983.
Please cite this data set as follows (citation revised September 23, 2002):
Hall, F. G., K. F. Huemmrich, D. E. Strebel, S. J. Goetz, J. E. Nickeson, and K. D. Woods. 1996. NWS Daily Climatology Data: 1983 (SNF). [National Weather Service Daily Climatology Data: 1983 (Superior National Forest)]. Data set. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/170.
Based on F. G. Hall, K. F. Huemmrich, D. E. Strebel, S. J. Goetz, J. E. Nickeson, and K. D. Woods, Biophysical, Morphological, Canopy Optical Property, and Productivity Data from the Superior National Forest, NASA Technical Memorandum 104568, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1992.