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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Harry Jenter
Publication_Date: 2005
Title: Wind data
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: text files
Online_Linkage: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/jenter/jenterwind.html>
Description:
Abstract:
The dataset contains date and time collected and wind speed and direction for sites at Old Ingraham Highway near Flamingo, FL and C-111.
Purpose:
With insight into the functional relationships and into the scales at which wind forcing data must be collected for model input gained from the field efforts, the treatment of wind forcing in models can be improved. This, in turn, can lead to enhanced understanding of the significance of wind effects on flow, transport, and horizontal mixing in the SICS (Southern inland coastal systems of Miami-Dade County) study area.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19970601
Ending_Date: 19971231
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: none planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.64
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.52
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.64
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.35
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: Wind forcing
Theme_Keyword: Vegetative resistance
Theme_Keyword: model
Theme_Keyword: Wind speed
Theme_Keyword: Wind direction
Theme_Keyword: meteorology
Theme_Keyword: hydrology
Theme_Keyword: surface water
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Theme_Keyword: 004
Theme_Keyword: 007
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: US
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, NIST
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: FL
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Place_Keyword: Miami-Dade County
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Geographic Names Information System
Place_Keyword: Flamingo
Place_Keyword: C-111 Canal
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Place_Keyword: Central Everglades
Place_Keyword: Old Inghram Highway
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: These data are provisional and subject to change
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Harry Jenter
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 430 National Center
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703 648-5916
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703 648-5484
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hjenter@usgs.gov
Data_Set_Credit: The data were originally collected by Ed German (USGS)
Native_Data_Set_Environment: ASCII data in columns
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Jenter, H. L.

Duff, M. P.

Publication_Date: 1999
Title:
Locally-forced wind effects on shallow waters with emergent vegetation
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ecohydraulics
Issue_Identification: none
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Salt Lake City, UT
Publisher: International Association for Hydraulic Research
Online_Linkage: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/windforce/>
Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable
Completeness_Report: not applicable
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
These data were collected originally by Ed German of the USGS. Gaps in the original data have been filled by linear interpolation of the wind speed and wind direction. For data collected between September, 1995 and January, 1998, less than .2 percent of the data have been interpolated. In addition, the vast majority of the interpolations are over single missing data points.
Process_Date: 1999
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Harry Jenter
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 430 National Center
City: Reston
State_or_Province: VA
Postal_Code: 20192
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703 648-5916
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703 648-5484
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hjenter@usgs.gov
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 1
Longitude_Resolution: 1
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Degrees, minutes, and decimal seconds
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
The data are in columns in the following order: year, month, day, hour (military convention, 0-23 ), minute, second (always 0 for this data), speed in meters/second, direction in degrees. Direction reported in the files is direction FROM which the wind is blowing. O is a wind from the North, 90 is wind from the East, 180 is wind from the South, and 270 is wind from the West.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: USGS personnel
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Heather S.Henkel
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing address
Address: 600 Fourth St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hhenkel@usgs.gov
Resource_Description: wind data
Distribution_Liability: No warrantees are implied or explicit for the data
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ASCII
Format_Information_Content:
Each file contains wind data for one site: Old Inghram Highway near Flamingo, FL and C111
Transfer_Size: 2.7
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/jenter/jenterwind.html>
Access_Instructions: Data are available for download from the SOFIA website
Fees: none
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20070606
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Heather Henkel
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 600 Fourth Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sofia-metadata@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
This page is <http://sofia.usgs.gov/metadata/sflwww/wind_data_jenter.html>

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