Raw Daily 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.

   DAILY FILES :
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DATA POINT
NUMBERS -->    1  2  3  4    5    6    7    8   9   10   11  12 13  14 
               |  |  |  |    |    |    |    |   |    |    |   |  |   | 
DATA -->      92,254,6,40.2,15.1,27.6,69.9,7.9,33.5,3.1,23.45,0,38,22.4,
                              29.3,34.1,24.7,29.1,1.3,.5,14,66,4.2,6.6,12
                                |    |    |    |   |  |   |  |  |   |   |
DATA POINT NUMBERS -->         15   16   17   18  19 20  21 22 23  24  25  

* NOTE: Daily data is actually all on one line per day,
        it has been put on two lines here to label each 
        data point by number.

    Data
    Point     Description
    -------  ------------------------
     1   A    Year (86,87,88,89,90 etc)
     2   B    Day of Year
     3   C    Station Number
     4   D    Air Temp - Max
     5   E    Air Temp - Min
     6   F    Air Temp - Mean
     7   G    RH - Max
     8   H    RH - Min
     9   I    RH - Mean
    10   J    VPD - Mean
    11   K    Solar Rad. - Total
    12   L    Precipitation - Total
    13   M    2" Soil Temp - Max  (moved to  4" in 1999)
    14   N    2" Soil Temp - Min  (moved to  4" in 1999)
    15   O    2" Soil Temp - Mean (moved to  4" in 1999)
    16   P    4" Soil Temp - Max  (moved to 20" in 1999)
    17   Q    4" Soil Temp - Min  (moved to 20" in 1999)
    18   R    4" Soil Temp - Mean (moved to 20" in 1999)
    19   S    Wind Speed - Mean
    20   T    Wind Vector Magnitude for Day
    21   U    Wind Vector Direction for Day
    22   V    Wind Direction Standard Deviation for Day
    23   W    Max Wind Speed
    24   X    Reference ET
    25   Y    Heat Units (30/12.8 C) (86/55 F)



                              STATION  NUMBERS
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
        1 = Tucson          11 = Litchfield        21 = Laveen
        2 = Yuma Valley     12 = Phx. Greenway     22 = Queen Creek
        3 = Yuma Mesa       13 = Marana            23 = Harquahala
        4 = Safford         14 = Yuma N. Gila      24 = Roll
        5 = Coolidge        15 = Phx. Encanto      25 = Ciudad Obregon 
        6 = Maricopa        16 = Eloy              26 = Roll
        7 = Aguila          17 = Dateland
        8 = Parker          18 = Scottsdale
        9 = Bonita          19 = Gila Bend
       10 = Citrus Farm     20 = Mohave



AZMET Units of Measurement
Conversion Factors