User's Guide to the Model Validation Kit - Harmonisation within ...

Table 2 Contents of the file PAR_KIN.TXT
Basic parameters:
Parameters supplied in the distributed files from Kincaid
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FILE NAMES
3 files with each 2040 obs.: MET_K1-L.DAT MET_K3-L.DAT
MET_K2-L.DAT
4 files with each 171 obs.: MISC_KIN.DAT MET_K1.DAT MET_K2.DAT MET_K3.DAT
1 file with 1284 obs.: SF6_KIN.DAT
YR Year + + + + +
MO Month + + + + +
DY Day + + + + +
HR Hour (end of hour; GMT-6) + + + + +
Observed meteorological parameters:
PRES Pressure (mb) +
NET Net radiation (W/m2) +
TOT Total radiation (W/m2) +
DP100 Dew-point temperature at 100 m (K) +
T100 Temperature at 100 m (K) +
T50 Temperature at 50 m (K) +
T10 Temperature at 10 m (K) +(*1) +
ZI Mixing height, observed (m) + +
DTHDZ Pot. temp. grad. between 100-50 m (K/m) + +
WS100 Wind speed at 100 m (m/s) + +
WS50 Wind speed at 50 m (m/s) +
WS30 Wind speed at 30 m (m/s) +
WS10 Wind speed at 10 m (m/s) +(*1) +
WD100 Wind direction at 100 m (deg.) +(*1) +
WD50 Wind direction at 50 m (deg.) +
WD30 Wind direction at 30 m (deg.) +
WD10 Wind direction at 10 m (deg.) +
SWD100 Sigma WD100 (deg.) +
SWD50 Sigma WD50 (deg.) +
SWD30 Sigma WD30 (deg.) +
SWD10 Sigma WD10 (deg.) +
SIGW Sigma of vertical velocity at 100 m (m/s) + +
SIGV Sigma of cross-wind speed at 100 m (m/s) + +
FLAG (*2) +
CEILNWS Ceiling (100’s of feet); -1=unlimited +
DPNWS Dew-point temp. (F) +
WDNWS Wind direction (deg.) +
WSNWS Wind speed (knots) +
PNWS Pressure (inch. Hg) +
TNWS Temperature (F) +
NNWS Cloud cover (1/10) +
PRECNWS Precipitation (mm) +
Derived parameters:
ZIPRE Predicted mixing height (m) +
UST Friction velocity (m/s) +
WST Convective velocity (m/s) +
L Monin-Obukhov length (m) +
TURNER Turner stability class (based on NWS data) +
Tracer parameters:
Q Emission rate (g/s) + +
TQ Gas temp. (K) +
VSQ Gas exit velocity (m/s) +
ARCMAX Max. conc. (ug/m3) at DIST (*3) +
DIST Distance (km) to arc of monitors +
AZMAX Direction (deg.) to ARCMAX +
ARCMAX/Q Conc normalized by emission, times 10**9 (s/m3 10**(-9)) +
QUAL Quality indicator for ARCMAX +
(*1): 5-6 observations are substituted with converted NWS observations.)
(*2): Value of flag describes which of the parameters T10, WS10 or WD100 are substituted.
For each of the substitutions FLAG is added the value 1, 2 resp. 4 (no subs. FLAG=0).)
(*3): Converted from ppt by multiplying with 1.758*p/T)
The file DISTM_K.DAT is meant as a help for deciding at which distances computations
should be performed (where SF6 was measured). 12 different distance values appear in
the data set.
Parametre
Units
DISTM_K
YR Year +
MO Month +
DY Day +
HR Hour, (GMT-6) +
NUARCM Number of arcs with values of max. conc. ARCMAX +
DM1 Distances (km) to arcs with +
DM2 values of ARCMAX +
... DM12 +
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