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.

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