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CROCUS Weather Data at Northwestern University Rooftop

Year: 2026

Type: dataset

Abstract: This dataset is from the Department of Energy Office of Science funded project, Community Research on Urban and Climate Science (CROCUS) (https://crocus-urban.org/). Vaisala WXT sensor is an all-in-one weather instrument that provides 6 of the most important weather parameters: barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction. Temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and rainfall are sampled at 1 second frequency, while wind speed/direction is measured at ten per second (10Hz) frequency. These measurements are useful for looking at characterizing local weather, identifying unique weather events, and studying local turbulence, especially given the high temporal resolution of the wind measurements. Datasets are stored in the netCDF data format, and we we encourage users to make use the associated toolkits available from Unidata (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/), Project Pythia (https://foundations.projectpythia.org/core/data-formats/netcdf-cf.html), and our “Instrument Cookbooks” (https://crocus-urban.github.io/instrument-cookbooks) for more information on how to process the metadata-rich datasets.

Source: DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Repository

DOI: 10.15485/3023808

Authors: O'Brien, Joseph, Miller, William, Packman, Aaron, Tuftedal, Matthew, Vincent, Anna, Wawrzyniak, Elizabeth, Keeler, Evan, Grover, Maxwell, Collis, Scott, Sankaran, Rajesh, Beckman, Peter, Ferrier, Nicola, Shahkarami, Sean, Kim, Yongho, Park, Seongha, Dematties, Dario, Conrad, Neal

Institutions: Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Subfield: Environmental Engineering

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem

Award: G4702578879

OpenAlex ID: W7139995329

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