_______________________________________________________________________ U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CLIM-MET Network Monitoring Site, SW United States SITE INFORMATION: USGS/CLIM-MET site code: SW06 USGS/CLIM-MET site name: Balch Datum: WGS 84 latitude: 35 01.929 longitude: 115 58.172 elevation: 353 m install_date: 99NOV09 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 2000 2.93 203.0 0.04159 3105.6 2292 NaN NaN NaN 21.84 27.64 NaN 0.00641 2001 2.73 202.3 -0.00437 394.5 1975 7.830 237.3 83.0 21.92 32.07 23.82 0.01190 2002 2.92 205.5 0.02480 1110.8 2188 5.444 246.4 89.2 21.44 26.29 23.46 0.00320 2003 2.75 205.3 -0.04599 89.3 1941 7.880 241.3 82.2 21.77 35.03 24.01 0.01369 2004 2.72 204.6 -0.02970 12.9 1903 8.758 248.3 81.5 21.25 36.89 23.65 0.01468 2005 2.46 205.7 -0.06831 4.6 1859 8.378 237.4 73.5 21.07 42.69 23.76 0.01623 2006 2.77 207.1 -0.08180 142.9 1838 5.491 NaN 81.6 21.47 32.83 24.96 0.00731 Winter 2000 2.70 197.8 0.16088 246.0 2044 NaN 136.1 50.3 11.36 34.46 NaN 0.01021 2001 2.59 191.7 0.11645 2229.3 2159 10.974 132.7 48.7 9.04 48.07 9.00 0.02865 2002 2.57 194.5 0.18197 71.7 1914 8.774 150.2 54.8 9.29 35.35 9.08 0.00097 2003 2.59 196.2 0.10685 1659.7 2109 7.537 141.3 50.9 10.85 49.81 11.16 0.01597 2004 2.49 197.0 0.14868 9.0 1893 13.581 147.9 50.0 9.04 50.31 8.47 0.01822 2005 2.34 189.2 0.20017 8.2 1861 18.809 132.4 39.6 10.31 73.05 9.32 0.04819 2006 2.37 196.8 0.09021 2.4 1791 4.945 148.1 50.9 10.16 38.86 10.31 0.00120 Spring 2000 3.39 216.0 -0.00823 7313.6 2805 5.280 NaN NaN 22.20 23.86 NaN 0.00041 2001 2.90 215.1 -0.07437 102.5 1924 10.898 284.3 99.4 22.01 30.28 24.15 0.00861 2002 3.31 221.3 -0.04809 976.9 2006 5.977 296.7 106.2 20.71 23.30 23.67 0.00399 2003 3.11 222.0 -0.09822 47.4 1912 11.118 291.8 99.1 20.01 34.74 22.60 0.02370 2004 2.90 214.7 -0.10360 0.3 1877 7.081 301.2 97.2 22.07 31.80 25.70 0.00893 2005 2.73 223.9 -0.14734 0.4 1851 6.516 288.8 87.2 20.26 38.44 24.46 0.00276 2006 2.84 217.1 -0.19110 55.4 1818 4.771 281.2 92.3 20.20 36.92 25.36 0.00679 Summer 2000 3.07 208.5 -0.04686 2779.9 2224 4.980 320.9 121.3 33.52 18.36 36.27 0.00920 2001 2.87 206.7 -0.17117 41.8 1970 3.873 327.3 114.4 33.45 18.69 37.29 0.00349 2002 3.01 208.8 -0.09712 1452.0 2084 4.448 335.3 122.3 33.87 16.16 37.14 0.00471 2003 2.90 205.6 -0.25154 8.2 1965 3.506 322.0 110.4 34.01 22.90 38.87 0.00168 2004 2.80 205.9 -0.22595 11.7 1962 4.511 334.3 110.9 33.27 20.47 38.70 0.00598 2005 2.53 202.2 -0.30657 10.8 1932 6.410 321.9 101.7 32.65 29.92 38.09 0.01984 2006 2.88 208.4 -0.26675 131.5 1904 6.826 322.6 106.7 34.32 23.90 40.07 0.01594 Fall 2000 2.71 197.3 0.08391 1211.2 2052 5.535 203.6 77.6 20.18 30.43 21.59 0.00586 2001 2.61 194.9 0.10890 128.0 1942 4.462 202.7 70.0 23.24 27.41 24.96 0.00632 2002 2.72 193.9 0.07937 622.6 2608 4.108 199.7 72.3 21.29 27.60 23.17 0.00394 2003 2.45 198.0 0.05407 0.6 1929 6.611 207.0 68.0 22.23 33.49 23.75 0.01131 2004 2.70 201.6 0.05131 34.6 1892 9.353 207.1 67.7 20.27 42.93 21.50 0.01947 2005 2.31 207.5 0.04687 0.7 1820 5.487 208.1 65.4 20.79 35.84 22.21 0.00298 2006 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN