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Technical Implementation Notice 11-52
National Weather Service Headquarters
1040 AM EDT Wed Oct 24 2011
To: Subscribers
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Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Jay Lawrimore
Chief, Climate Analysis Branch
National Climatic
SUBJECT: Surface Temperature (Infrared) Calibration Revision for the Hourly02 and
Daily01 Products
Effective January 7, 2013
Effective Monday, January 7, 2013, at
approximately 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), The National Climatic Data
Center will add a surface temperature type field in the hourly02 (CRNH02) and
daily01 (CRND01) products. These
revisions will affect the reported surface temperature (Infrared) for stations
of the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) and the
Presently, the surface temperatures values
in these fields are being reported as uncorrected measurements; however, due to
an ongoing equipment refresh to a new infrared surface temperature sensor model,
USCRN is now also reporting corrected surface temperature measurements for some
stations. These changes will impact previous users of the data because the corrected
values will differ from uncorrected values.
To distinguish between uncorrected (raw)
and corrected surface temperature measurements, a surface temperature type field
will be added to the hourly02 and daily01 products. This new field will be one
character in length and will immediately precede the existing surface
temperature fields. For the hourly02, the new field will be inserted at column
125 with any following fields shifted forward by 2
characters.
For the daily01, the new field will be
inserted at column 88, with any following fields shifted forward by 2
characters. The possible values of the
new field will be "R" to denote raw surface temperature measurements,
"C" to denote corrected surface temperature measurements, and "U"
for unknown when measurements are missing.
The details of these changes will be online
at:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/products/daily01/New_IR_Sensor.txt
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/products/hourly02/New_IR_Sensor.txt
For both products, the fields for average,
maximum, and minimum surface temperature will remain 7 characters in length
with one decimal place of precision, and report the temperature in degrees Celsius.
The documentation for the products will
also be revised to clearly explain the purpose of the new surface temperature
type field.
If you have questions or feedback, please
contact:
Scott Embler
National Climatic
828-350-2027
NWS Technical Implementation Notices are
online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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