About
The Arcola data site was initiated in the summer of 2002 to collect weather and climate data. The site is funded by the C-FAR Water Quality Strategic Research Initiative (WQSRI). The goal of the site is to measure and archive water and nitrogen balances.
Data collection ceased in August 2006 for this station, and are provided on this site as an archive.
Archived data from the site are structured into a comma-delimited format for ease of importation into most spreadsheet applications. Beginning dates vary. Data column headers are defined below.
Average data are calculated from the polling of instrumentation every 10 seconds and averaging over each hour and day. Maximum and minimum data are the single highest and lowest values recorded for the day within each variable. Solar radiation, precipitation, and evaporation represent a daily total of these parameters.
Headers ending with "er" are error flags with the options of "M" for missing data and "E" for estimated data. Where appropriate, missing data were estimated from adjacent station data or interpolated from adjacent times at the same site.
Arcola Site data are currently available on the web in two formats. Monthly data for the current year in space-delimited or column-delimited text files are formatted just as a paper copy would appear.
Yearly data, the second format, list daily data two different ways. The "archived" format lists daily data from the time the station began recording until the last complete year of collection. The current year's daily data also are presented in the same format. Both types of text files are in comma-delimited format.
To see the location of the Arcola station, select "Station Map".
| Arcola Station Information | |||
| 3-letter ID | Longitude | Latitude | Elevation |
| (deg) | (deg) | (m) | |
| ARL | 88 14 42.48 W | 39 42 36.78 N | 196.3 |
To Print the Data:
First, Save the data file (or text file) to your hard drive. Use your Web browser to navigate to the page displaying the data you wish to print. Choose File --> Save As, and then in the resulting "Save As" box, choose a location on your hard drive to Save the file. Click Save, which will put the text file on your computer's hard drive.
Once you have saved the text file on your hard drive, open the file in WordPad. To start WordPad go to Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> WordPad. To open the file, use File --> Open, and then in the "Open" box, navigate to the location where you saved the file during the last step. Select the file, and click Open. Select, or highlight, the entire page using Edit --> Select All. When selected, the text area will change to a black background with white lettering.
Change the font size by typing 7.4 into the font size box and press Enter. The font size box is directly to the right of the font bar (which probably displays 10-point "Courier New" or "Courier"). If these bars are not available, click View --> Format Bar. If the text will not fit on the printed page, then try reducing the point size to 7.3. Keep reducing the size of the font by 0.1 until the page prints correctly. If the data are still selected (black) in the document body, click anywhere in the document text area to deselect it.
The page is now ready to print by using File --> Print. If the data are monthly and will not fit on a single 8½ X 11 page, reduce the margin width. This may be changed in the "Page Setup" area (File --> Page Setup) by entering values of 0.25 inches for the left and right margin widths.
Column Headers:
| year = year
month = month day = day max_wind_gust = maximum daily wind gust (miles per hour) xwser = error flag for maximum daily wind gust avg_wind_speed = average daily wind speed (miles per hour)awser = error flag for average daily wind speed avg_wind_dir = average daily wind direction (degrees, clockwise from north)awder = error flag for average daily wind direction sol_rad = total daily solar radiation (mega-Joules per square meter)soler = error flag for total daily solar radiation max_air_temp = daily maximum air temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)xater = error flag for daily maximum air temperature min_air_temp = daily minimum air temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)nater = error flag for daily minimum air temperature avg_air_temp = average daily air temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)aater = error flag for average daily air temperature max_rel_hum = daily maximum relative humidity (percent)xrher = error flag for daily maximum relative humidity min_rel_hum = daily minimum relative humidity (percent)nrher = error flag for daily minimum relative humidity avg_rel_hum = average daily relative humidity (percent)arher = error flag for average daily relative humidity avg_dewpt_temp = average daily dew point temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)adper = error flag for average daily dew point temperature precip = total daily precipitation (inches)pcer = error flag for total daily precipitation pot_evapot = total potential evapotranspiration (inches)pevaper = error flag for total potential evapotranspiration max_soiltemp_4in = daily maximum 4-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)xst4er = error flag for daily maximum 4-inch soil temperature min_soiltemp_4in = daily minimum 4-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)nst4er = error flag for daily minimum 4-inch soil temperature avg_soiltemp_4in = average daily 4-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)ast4er = error flag for error flag for average daily 4-inch soil temperature max_soiltemp_8in = daily maximum 8-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)xst8er = error flag for error flag for daily maximum 8-inch soil temperature min_soiltemp_8in = daily minimum 8-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)nst8er = error flag for daily minimum 8-inch soil temperature avg_soiltemp_8in = average daily 8-inch soil temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)ast8er = error flag for error flag for average daily 8-inch soil temperature site = station name |
If you have any questions about the Arcola Data Site, or if you need more information for this station, please contact Walt Kelly.