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Arizona Meterological Network (azmet) location of weather stations

Publication date: 2005

Author(s):

  • Arizona Meteorological Network

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.


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Temporal Coverage:

1986-01-01 to 2005-03-06

Geographic Coverage:

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

Contact:

Information Manager, 
Global Institute of Sustainability,Arizona State University,POB 875402,TEMPE
 caplter.data@asu.edu

Data Files (1) :

Spatial Vector: azmetSites

Description:
Horizontal Coordinate System:WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_12N
Geometry Type: Point

Column Description Type Units
FID Internal feature number.
OID
Shape Feature geometry.
Geometry
station_id station id as used in database
string
station station name
string
lat latitude
double degree
long longitude
double degree
elevationm elevation in meters
integer meter
topomap the usgs topo map on which this station is located
string
installed installed
Date Format: MM/DD/YYYY

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