7.1 Data Reports
The
following general recommendations apply to meteorological data bases being prepared
for use in regulatory modeling applications. All meteorological data should
be reduced to hourly averages using the procedures provided in Section 6.
The data should be recorded in chronological order; records should be
labeled according to the observation time (defined as the time at the end of
the averaging period; i.e., the hour ending). If possible, each data record
should contain the data for one hourly observation (one record per hour).
The first four fields of each data record should identify the year, month,
day and hour of the observation. The data records should be preceded by a
header record providing the following information:
- Station
name
- Station
location (latitude, longitude, and time zone)
- Station
elevation
- Period
of record and number of records
- Validation
level (see Section 8)
A
summary report should accompany each meteorological data base prepared for
use in regulatory modeling applications.
The summary report should provide the following information:
- number
and percent of hours with complete/valid data.
- number
and percent of hours with valid stability data.
- number
and percent of hours with valid wind speed and wind direction data
including valid calms.
- list
of hours requiring substitutions including identification of the missing
variable and the substitution protocol employed.
7. DATA REPORTING AND ARCHIVING
7.1 Data Reports
7.2 Data Archives
7.3 Recommendations
