Raw Hourly Data Format

     AZMET offers two types of comma delimited (ASCII format) data files:
     Hourly and Daily.  These files can be loaded into a spreadsheet or
     database such as Lotus, Quatro, Paradox, Fox Pro, DBase, Surfer, etc.
     These data files can also be can also be utilized by a custom program
     written in Basic, Fortran, Pascal or C language.

     In all raw data files, the units of measurement are Metric.


   HOURLY FILES :
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DATA POINT
NUMBERS -->  1  2  3  4    5    6  7 8  9   10   11  12  13  14 15  16  17
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            92,254,1,20.9,42.2,1.4,0,0,25.5,27.6,1.6,1.3,147,33,2.6,.05,.34
DATA -->    92,254,2,19.5,49.8,1.1,0,0,24.8,27,1,.8,192,37,1.5,.03,.28
            92,254,3,19.1,51,1.1,0,0,24.2,26.5,1,.8,236,41,2.3,.03,.26
            92,254,4,18.1,55.1,.9,0,0,23.7,26,1.3,.8,289,48,2.5,.02,.22

      Data
      Point     Description
     --------  -----------------------
       1   A    Year (86,87,88,89,90 etc)
       2   B    Day of Year
       3   C    Hour of Day
       4   D    Air Temp.
       5   E    Rel. Humidity
       6   F    Vapor Pressure Deficit
       7   G    Solar Radiation
       8   H    Precipitation
       9   I    2" Soil Temp. (moved to  4" in 1999)
      10   J    4" Soil Temp. (moved to 20" in 1999)
      11   K    Wind Speed (Ave)
      12   L    Wind Vector Magnitude
      13   M    Wind Vector Direction
      14   N    Wind Direction Standard Deviation
      15   O    Max Wind Speed
      16   P    Reference ET
      17   Q    Heat Units (30/12.8 C) (86/55 F)


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