These data contain surface meteorology measurements of the Integrated Surface Flux System (ISFS) during the second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAXII), at the Barringer Meteor Crater, Arizona, during October of 2013.
The 30 minute dataset contains the following quantities. H, LE and u* were computed using tilt-corrected eddy covariances.
Table of 30 minute variables
Variable Name
Description
H.3m.{far,near,flr}
Sensible heat at 3 meters at far, near and crater floor towers
LE.3m.{far,near,flr}
Latent heat
u*.3m.{far,near,flr}
Friction velocity
T.2m.{far,flr}
RH.2m.{far,flr}
P.2m.{far,flr}
Mean temperature, relative humidity and pressure at 2 meters at far and crater floor
T.3m.near
RH.3m.near
P.3m.near
3 meters at the near tower
rhoDry.2m.{flr,far}
rhoDry.3m.near
Density of dry air
Rsw.{in,out}.{far,near,flr}
Incoming, outgoing short wave radiation
Rlw.{in,out}.{far,near,flr}
Incoming, outgoing infrared radiation
Rsw.{global,dfs}.{near,flr}
Incoming global and diffuse short wave radiation at near site and crater floor.
Rsum.{far,near,flr}
Net radiation (sum of Rsw and Rlw) at each site,
Gsfc.{far,near,flr}
Surface heat flux
Quality Control, Corrections, Derivations
The QC procedure was the same as noted for the 5 minute tilt-corrected dataset. For details, see the documentation for that dataset
NetCDF File Names
Each NetCDF file contains one week data, from 00:00 UTC of the data contained in the file name. The file names are of the form "isfs_30min_YYYYMMDD.nc", where YYYYMMDD is the start year, month and day in UTC.
Time Representation
The base_time variable contains one value, the time of the start of the file, as a number of POSIX (non-leap) seconds since 1970 Jan 1, 00:00 UTC.
Values for each time-varying measurement will be found in the NetCDF files, as a variable with a time dimension. The time dimension will be 336 for a complete file, the number of 30 minute periods in a week.
The time variable contains the time to be associated with each sample, in units of seconds since base_time, or 00:00 UTC of the day. Each time value is the middle of the averaging period, and will have values of 900 (00:15:00 UTC), 2700 (00:45:00), etc.
Dimensions
The NetCDF dimensions in each file are:
Dimension Name
Size
Description
time
336
number of 30 minute periods in a week
site
5
index for the five ISFS sites at METCRAXII: flr, rim, base, near, far
Short Name Attributes
Each measured variable will have a short_name NetCDF attribute. The field before the first period in the short_name is a generic variable name, such as T for temperature, or Rsw for short wave radiation.
NetCDF Variable Names
The actual NetCDF variable names will have underscores, '_', in place of periods and single quotes. Therefore a variable with a short_name attribute H.3m.near will have a NetCDF variable name of H_3m_near.
Units
Variables have a NetCDF attribute specifying the units of the measurement.
Missing Data
The missing data value is 1037. A missing value indicates the sensor was not reporting or that one or more of the variables in the derivation is missing at the corresponding time.
