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  Arizona Meterological Network (azmet) location of weather stations
Identifier:245_1

Publication date:2005

Author(s):

Abstract:
The Arizona Meteorological Network (AZMET) provides meteorological data and weather-based information to agricultural and horticultural interests operating in southern and central Arizona. Meteorological data is collected from a network of automated weather stations located in both rural and urban production settings. Meteorological data collected by AZMET include temperature (air and soil), humidity, solar radiation, wind (speed and direction), and precipitation. AZMET also provides a variety of computed variables, including heat units (degree-days), chill hours, and reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo). AZMET data are summarized in a variety of formats, including several ready-to-use summaries that use English units, and comma-delimited ASCII text files that can be imported into most database and spreadsheet programs. Special reports generated by AZMET include the Phoenix Area Turf Water Use Report and Weekly Cotton Advisories (generated Mondays from February through August). AZMET began operating on Jan 1 1987; we have no data prior to this date.


Keywords:
PRECIPITATION, TEMPERATURE, SONORAN DESERT, WEATHER, PHOENIX, urban, solar radiation, caplter, Central Arizona Phoenix Longterm Ecological Research, metropolitan area, Arizona, relative humidity, Climate Ecosystem Interactions, Geosciences, wind speed, vapor pressure deficit, climate

Temporal Coverage:
1986-01-01 - 2005-03-06

Geographic Coverage:
Geographic Description:Central Arizona
Bounding Coordinates:
Longitude:-114.803466 to -109.643889
Latitude:35.020785 to 27.327339

Contact:
Data Manager, 
Global Institute of Sustainability,Arizona State University,POB 875401,TEMPE
 caplter.data@asu.edu



Entities:

Spatial Vector: azmetSites

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Attributes:
Attribute:FID
 Description:Internal feature number.

Attribute:Shape
 Description:Feature geometry.

Attribute:station_id
 Description:station id as used in database

Attribute:station
 Description:station name

Attribute:lat
 Description:latitude
Measurement Unit:degree

Attribute:long
 Description:longitude
Measurement Unit:degree

Attribute:elevationm
 Description:elevation in meters
Measurement Unit:meter

Attribute:topomap
 Description:the usgs topo map on which this station is located

Attribute:installed
 Description:installed



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