_______________________________________________________________________ U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLIM-MET Network Monitoring Site, SW United States SITE INFORMATION: USGS/CLIM-MET site code: SW02 USGS/CLIM-MET site name: Virgina Park Datum: WGS 84 latitude: 38 05.681 longitude: 109 50.399 elevation: 1716 m install_date: 98MAY03 For additional detailed site information, photos, and description, Please See Website at http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/sw/clim-met/ _______________________________________________________________________ CONTACT INFORMATION: Frank Urban or Richard Reynolds U.S. Geological Survey Denver Federal Center Box 25046, MS 980 Lakewood, CO 80225 furban@usgs.gov 303-236-4790 rreynolds@usgs.gov 303-236-1303 _______________________________________________________________________ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT POLICY: If you use USGS/CLIM-MET data, 1) Please notify us (email) when you begin to use data and for what general purpose. 2) Please notify us (email) and acknowledge us (references) when USGS/CLIM-MET data are used or presented in published media. Current citation = "CLIM-MET data obtained from http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/sw/clim-met/". 3) Please send us paper or electronic copies of any published media that use USGS/CLIM-MET data. __________________________________________________________________________ DEFINITIONS/Variables: YR: Year of Data Collection DOY: Julian Day-Of-Year Hr: Mountain or Pacific Daylight Time Uspd: Windspeed in m/s Udir: Wind direction in degrees Tgrad: Air Temperature Gradient (C) SenPC: Total Sensit Particle Count SenKE: Total Sensit Kinetic Energy Count Smost: Soil Moisture % PeakUspd: Peak Windspeed m/s PeakTime: Peak Windspeed Time So_d: Downwelling Shortwave Flux (W/m^2) So_u: Upwelling Shortwave Flux (W/m^2) Tair: Air Temperature 3-m above surface (C) RH: Relative Humidity % Tg: Ground Temperature 10-cm below surface (C) Rain: Rainfall mm/hour or total mm if indicated as such Alb: Albedo -999: (data were missing or bad) NaN: (data were missing or bad) __________________________________________________________________________ *Variable Names With Added "2" identifier are 5-minute resolution data* __________________________________________________________________________ ANNUAL/SEASONAL AVERAGES: Year Uspd Udir Tgrad SenPC SenKE Smost So_d So_u Tair Rh Tg Rain Annual 1999 1.37 169.2 NaN 0.3 2404 7.603 211.2 45.0 13.76 35.29 14.58 0.02917 2000 1.44 172.4 -0.23701 0.3 2872 7.293 207.2 46.1 14.16 37.91 15.56 0.02118 2001 1.34 171.0 -0.31728 0.5 2330 7.146 206.2 45.1 13.88 40.17 15.62 0.02539 2002 1.40 169.5 -0.30205 0.2 2294 6.730 214.4 43.8 13.50 36.16 15.36 0.01780 2003 1.44 171.4 -0.30612 0.6 2276 7.252 209.3 42.9 14.22 39.22 14.85 0.01996 2004 1.39 172.2 -0.31803 0.4 2249 7.628 210.2 50.5 12.96 44.83 14.33 0.02637 2005 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Winter 1999 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 2000 1.08 160.6 -0.61098 0.1 2131 9.271 110.3 47.1 2.98 54.30 1.81 0.02111 2001 1.02 155.6 -0.49739 0.1 2101 9.391 110.7 38.1 1.30 59.21 0.19 0.01653 2002 0.97 148.2 -0.54286 0.1 2069 8.489 115.9 33.6 0.17 51.99 -0.90 0.00981 2003 0.94 150.6 -0.55640 0.1 2098 9.165 112.4 22.4 2.39 61.73 0.70 0.02245 2004 0.97 157.8 -0.57806 0.4 2051 9.039 110.3 55.2 -0.07 63.64 -0.73 0.02033 2005 1.04 156.9 -0.49941 0.3 2074 10.853 110.5 27.2 2.59 70.97 1.22 0.02761 2006 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Spring 1999 1.74 183.3 NaN 0.4 2381 8.671 247.6 47.4 11.72 32.08 13.50 0.03800 2000 1.70 181.5 -0.14620 0.3 4438 7.878 257.7 50.3 14.12 32.01 15.97 0.02210 2001 1.51 185.4 -0.18528 0.5 2324 8.149 248.5 49.6 13.34 38.61 15.94 0.02699 2002 1.77 180.9 -0.12606 0.1 2280 5.949 275.5 54.7 13.41 25.75 17.45 0.00725 2003 1.80 185.9 -0.10199 0.5 2250 8.866 253.5 45.7 12.92 34.86 14.46 0.01473 2004 1.66 181.5 -0.18201 0.5 2240 9.223 264.3 51.2 14.14 34.94 15.65 0.03764 2005 1.69 182.6 -0.16162 0.3 2230 6.756 254.9 50.3 12.55 39.12 15.04 0.01871 2006 1.71 184.7 -0.14893 0.4 2201 7.662 260.0 53.7 13.29 35.61 15.93 0.02311 Summer 1998 1.67 169.0 NaN 0.1 2751 3.985 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 0.01200 1999 1.52 179.3 0.03646 0.6 2606 7.267 274.6 48.5 23.94 36.08 28.01 0.04656 2000 1.57 180.4 0.01926 0.5 2638 4.293 288.7 59.2 26.57 23.90 31.30 0.01658 2001 1.63 178.1 -0.03994 0.6 2560 5.731 287.4 56.8 25.60 28.64 30.84 0.03863 2002 1.68 184.5 -0.04154 0.3 2543 3.104 298.0 58.3 27.21 20.18 32.40 0.01042 2003 1.60 179.6 -0.06855 0.9 2480 4.389 294.5 56.2 26.81 25.96 30.06 0.01803 2004 1.58 184.8 -0.09389 0.5 2453 3.801 300.8 62.9 25.25 26.77 29.99 0.00952 2005 1.55 177.8 -0.03569 0.5 2434 5.652 292.3 52.7 25.10 32.30 29.49 0.03243 2006 1.52 174.0 0.04343 0.4 2436 5.349 290.8 49.5 26.21 33.55 30.96 0.03048 Fall 1998 1.18 160.5 NaN 0.4 2457 9.105 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 0.04086 1999 1.13 155.1 -0.72125 0.2 2399 6.029 184.4 36.8 14.75 28.07 13.19 0.01369 2000 1.38 169.7 -0.30682 0.2 2338 7.268 171.1 41.5 12.54 41.61 13.22 0.03082 2001 1.24 163.6 -0.57410 0.8 2340 5.499 178.1 36.9 15.65 32.94 15.63 0.01677 2002 1.16 160.7 -0.48000 0.5 2271 9.438 163.8 30.0 12.35 46.08 11.71 0.04693 2003 1.37 168.6 -0.49887 0.5 2280 6.435 175.5 39.3 14.52 36.33 13.82 0.01754 2004 1.39 167.8 -0.41215 0.7 2257 8.192 162.0 36.4 12.57 51.61 12.47 0.04022 2005 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN