Surface meteorological data at Kototabang (CSV format)

2016-09-01 11:04:00

The surface meteorological data taken by the automatical weather station (AWS) at Kototabang, in West Sumatra, Indonesia (0.20S, 100.32E, 865m MSL), which has been operated since August 8, 1999 The data are stored in the CSV (Comma Separated Values) file named (year)(month)(day).csv. The first two lines of each file represent header information, and the third and below are observational date and time (year/month/day hour:minute:second) which corresponds to the center time of averaging period (first column) and data including pressure, precipitation, relative humidity, solar radiation, temperature, wind direction and speed (the other columns). The left colums of each parameter represent the status code.

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PT1M

-0.20

-0.20

100.32

100.32

date

Date in the form YYYY-MM-DD where YYYY= Gregorian Year AD, MM = month of year (01-12), and DD = day of month (01-31).

time

Time in the form hh:mm:ss where hh = hour of day (00-23), mm = minute of hour and ss = second of minute. Local time (UT+07:00:00) is used for time data.

PA

Pressure

hPa

PR

Precipitation

mm

RH

Relative humidity

%

0

100

SR

Solar radiation

kW/m^2

TA

Temperature

degree C

20

40

DirAvg

1-minute average of wind direction

degree

0

360

SpdAvg

1-minute average of wind speed

m/s

status

Status code. Data with the status code 'VALID' are available.

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