Kansas State University Mesonet (KSUMESO)
Information updated on November 15, 2006, 8:17 pm GMT
General Data Description
Surface meterology information are available from sixteen stations in Kansas. The data are provided and quality assured by the High Plains Climate Center.All stations are Campbell CR10 dataloggers with Phys-Chem Temp/ RH probes, Texas Instrument (0.01") tipping bucket rain gauges, Met One Anemometers, Met One Wind vanes, 107 soil temp probes at 2" and 4" depth, and Li-Cor Slicon Pyranometers (Sandyland has an Eppley). They are mounted on a 10 ft tripod, with wind and solar instruments at 10 ft, Air/RH at 5 ft, and top of rain gauge approximately 15" above ground. For further details see The High Plains Regional Climate Center Web site.
Data Stream Names
- 60ksumeso - Kansas Mesonet (High Plains Climate Center): surface met. & radiation data, 60-min
netCDF File Header Description (Data Object Design File)
Measurement Description
- air temperature (C)
- relative humidity (percent)
- wind direction (degrees)
- average wind speed (m/s)
- hourly total solar radiation (langleys)
- total precipitation (mm)
- 10 cm soil temperature (C)
- leaf wetness
- data quality flag
Leaf wetness is estimated from the closest station within the HPRCC Automated Weather Data Network with a leaf wetness sensor since there currently are no leaf wetness sensors at the Kansas Mesonet stations.
Leaf wetness is only available for stations Manhattan, Tribune, and Wichita.
-44444 is a fill value for leaf wetness in stations which do not include estimated leaf wetness data.
The data quality flag consists of 8 single digit flags packed into a long integer, where each position represents a field and the number in position is the quality flag for that field. The fields represented from the leftmost digit to the rightmost digit is as follows:
Digit | Field |
1 | air temperature |
2 | relative humidity |
3 | wind direction |
4 | wind speed |
5 | solar radiation |
6 | precipitation |
7 | soil temperature at 10 cm. |
8 | leaf wetness |
Flag | Meaning |
0 | No flags were set for the files |
1 | estimated with 5 closest stations using an inverse distance weighting function. |
2 | data is suspect but not estimated from the 5 closest stations. |
3 | estimated data based on regression methodology. |
example1 = value of 102 means that the precipitation was estimated with the 5 closest stations and that leaf wetness was estimated based on regression methodolgy and all other fields had no flags set.
example2 = 11113112 means that temperature, relative humidity, wind direction, wind speed, and precipitation were estimated with the 5 closest stations. Solar radiation was estimated using a regression methodology, while leaf wetness was suspect, but not estimated.
Missing Data Values:
-99999 is the fill value
Temporal Coverage
Data are available at the ARM Archive approximately one month after they are generated.
Area Covered
Data Stream Inputs
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Contacts
- ARM Mentor Richard Wagener
- ARM Software Developer Laurie Gregory
Data User Notes
Acronyms
HPRCC | High Plains Regional Climate Center |
KSU | Kansas State University |