Station Data format

The station data contains the following information.

Variable information for hourly data

COMMA SEPARATED VALUE (“csv”) Format description

Variable information

SiteNum

Year

Day_of_Year

HrMin

Lat

Lon

VersionNum

TAIR1(1)

TAIR1(2)

TAIR1(12)

TAIR2(1)

TAIR2(2)

TAIR2(12)

TAIR3(1)

TAIR3(2)

TAIR3(12)

VWPCP1(1)

VWPCP1(2)

VWPCP1(12)

VWPCP2(1)

VWPCP2(2)

VWPCP2(12)

VWPCP3(1)

VWPCP3(2)

VWPCP3(12)

WET1(1)

WET1(2)

WET1(12)

WET2(1)

WET2(2)

WET2(12)

TAIR1_5mn_Min

TAIR2_5mn_Min

TAIR3_5mn_Min

TAIR1_5mn_Max

TAIR2_5mn_Max

TAIR3_5mn_Max

T1Cal_Std

T2Cal_Std

T3Cal_Std

FANSP1_Avg

FANSP2_Avg

BATVolt_Avg

PSVoltFL

DoorTime_Tot

TPRECP_Max

RefRes_Avg

DSignTR

TotHTR

TotDoor

XMTPWF

XMTPWR

unknown

Data description

  • HrMin is the time (for example, 100 is 1:00)

  • TAIR1(12) is the data 5 minutes after HrMin

  • TAIR1(11) is the data 10 minutes after HrMin

  • TAIR1(1) is the data 55 minutes after HrMin:

The CSV data example

1126,2009,195,100,37.51722,-111.9775,6.101,31.47,31.53,31.79,31.61,31.69,32.07,32.14,32.17,32.28,32.27,32.38,32.46,31.47,31.54,31.78,31.62,31.69,32.08,32.15,32.2,32.27,32.29,32.37,32.48,31.46,31.52,31.78,31.6,31.67,32.07,32.14,32.18,32.27,32.27,32.39,32.45,93.13358,93.13358,93.12943,93.12525,93.12943,93.13358,93.13358,93.13776,93.14191,93.13776,93.14191,93.14609,94.32089,94.32507,94.32507,94.32089,94.31257,94.3084,94.31673,94.30424,94.29175,94.28757,94.28757,94.32089,92.22306,92.22717,92.22717,92.22306,92.22717,92.22306,92.21896,92.21896,92.21896,92.22306,92.21484,92.21484,1166,1170,1173,1175,1178,1181,1183,1185,1186,1188,1191,1192,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,31.4423,31.44466,31.43211,32.54517,32.54897,32.54406,0.405,0.401,0.409,116.1,0,12.73,125,1.5,38.96,1499.849,19142,0,512,400,310,-6666
1126,2009,195,200,37.51722,-111.9775,6.101,30.07,30.19,30.26,30.39,30.58,30.78,30.88,30.95,31.09,31.06,31.13,31.36,30.06,30.17,30.24,30.37,30.57,30.76,30.86,30.94,31.08,31.05,31.12,31.36,30.06,30.17,30.25,30.38,30.56,30.77,30.86,30.93,31.08,31.05,31.12,31.34,93.14609,93.14191,93.13776,93.13358,93.12943,93.13358,93.13776,93.12943,93.12943,93.13358,93.12943,93.12943,94.34171,94.33338,94.33338,94.32922,94.32922,94.32922,94.32507,94.32507,94.3084,94.35006,94.32089,94.32507,92.23129,92.23129,92.22717,92.23539,92.23539,92.23539,92.23129,92.23539,92.23129,92.22306,92.21896,92.22306,1149,1150,1151,1151,1152,1153,1154,1155,1136,1159,1160,1164,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2988,2987,3
....

Merge mutiple data

If you have multiple original files, you can merge these files into one file.

$ ls
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-001	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-001	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-022	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-020
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-002	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-002	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-023	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-021
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-003	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-003	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-001	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-022
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-004	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-004	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-002	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-023
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-005	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-005	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-003	cd13c5ba_20120727.csv-001
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-006	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-006	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-004	cd13c5ba_20120727.csv-002
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-007	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-007	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-005	cd13c5ba_20120727.csv-003
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-008	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-008	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-006	cd13c5ba_20120727.csv-004
cd0e913e_20120727.csv-009	cd10c2b4_20120728.csv-009	cd1160b6_20120728.csv-007	cd13c5ba_20120727.csv-005
$ awk 1 cd0e913e_20120727.csv-0* > cd0e913e_20120727.csv

Sometimes the cat command connects the data in two files in succession. The awk is better for this merge.