Manitou Experimental Forest Observatory
Met data from Chemistry Tower
John Ortega, NCAR, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling

Meteorological data was taken at 1 Hz from 4 levels on the chemistry tower:  1.8m (level 1), 7.0m, 14.1m, 
and 27.8m (level 4).   

Data archived here is avergaged every 5 minutes.  The data file for each day should have exactly 288 lines -1 line for
each 5 minute period.  The columns are the following:
1.  Time (Matlab day)  
2.  Time (decimial day of year; July 7 = 189 (for leap year 2016)
3.  Temperature in deg C
4.  % Relative humidity
5.  Pressure in mb (1 mb = 1 hPa)
6.  Wind speed in m/s
7.  Wind direction in degrees (north = 0, west = 270, etc.). 

Wind directions were broken down into their sine and cosine components prior to averaging.

Missing data is listed at -8888.

The met data on level 4 is oriented 30 degrees east of north, so the wind direction data has 30 degrees
subtracted from it in the final data.  This has been taken into account in all of the data files, but not in
the plots (jpeg files: "WS_YYYYMMDD.jpg" where YYYY is the year and MMDD is the month and day).

The following plots are made for each day
Wind speed for all 4 levels:  "WS_20150XXX.jpg"
Wind direction for all 4 levels:  "WD_20150XXX.jpg"
Temperature for all for levels:  "Temp_20150XXX.jpg"
Relative humidity for all 4 levels:  "RH_20150XXX.jpg"

The following data files are available in tab-delimited text:
5 minute data for single day:  "MET_levelX_YYYYMMDD.txt where X is the level 1-4 and MMDD is the month and day.

The time stamp in columns 1 and 2 are the middle (2:30) of each 5 minute period.