SnowEx Meteorological Station Measurements from Grand Mesa, CO, Version 1
Data set id:
SNEX_Met
DOI: 10.5067/497NQVJ0CBEX
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial data release

Overview

This dataset contains meteorological data collected as part of the ongoing the NASA SnowEx mission, from five meteorological stations installed between 2016-2017 in Grand Mesa, Colorado, to provide supporting data for SnowEx field campaigns and forcing data for modeling. Each station collects a suite of meteorological data at a fixed geographic point, from varying heights above and below the surface elevation. Measured data include: air temperature, relative humidity, long and shortwave solar radiation, barometric pressure, soil moisture and temperature, and derived snow depth. The temporal data coverage varies between each station, but spans October 2016 to August 2022. The dataset(s) contain air temperature and relative humidity (10ft and 20ft levels), 4-component radiation (shortwave, longwave), barometric pressure, soil-moisture and temperature (three depths), and a snow-depth product. Data coverage varies for each met station, but spans the time period of October 2016 – August, 2022. The data frequency is hourly and times are in UTC. The data is monotonic (no duplicate or mis-orderd timestamps) and steps have been taken to remove erroneous data. Periods of missing data are filled with NaN values. The scripts used to process raw data into the current format are available on the github page (https://github.com/wrudisill/GrandMesaMetData/blob/main/process_data_in…).
Parameter(s):
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSUREATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURELONGWAVE RADIATIONRELATIVE HUMIDITYSHORTWAVE RADIATIONSNOW DEPTHSOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENTSOIL TEMPERATUREWIND DIRECTIONWIND SPEED
Platform(s):
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Sensor(s):
CNR4, Campbell Scientific CS106, HC2S3, HydraProbe, RM Young 05103 Wind Monitor, SR50A
Data Format(s):
CSV, PNG
Temporal Coverage:
9 October 2016 to 30 August 2022
Temporal Resolution:
  • 1 hour
Spatial Resolution:
  • varies
  • varies
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84
EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
N:
39.03388
S:
39.03388
E:
-108.21399
W:
-108.21399
N:
39.03954
S:
39.03954
E:
-107.94174
W:
-107.94174
N:
39.10358
S:
39.10358
E:
-107.88383
W:
-107.88383
N:
39.05084
S:
39.05084
E:
-108.06144
W:
-108.06144
N:
39.05225
S:
39.05225
E:
-108.09792
W:
-108.09792
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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