Contents of 3.5" HD floppy disk
This 3.5" HD disk contains 3 files (station.dat, normal.dat,
monthly.dat) in fixed ASCII format, one in Microsoft Word format
(readme.doc) and one in ASCII text format (readme.txt).
Data from this 3.5" HD disk may only be used with proper reference
to the accompanying report (Laursen, E.V. & J. Cappelen, 1998:
Observed Hours of Bright Sunshine in Denmark - with Climatological
Standard Normals 1961-90. DMI Technical Report 98-4).

Station file:	station.dat

The station catalogue contained in the file station.dat describes
the number, name, position, elevation and quality of 29 Danish
sunshine recording stations representing the 29 series of this
report. Each record of the file contains information about one
station. The file is sorted by station number and has the
following layout:

Position	Format	Description

1-8	F8.0	Station number
9-28	A20	Station name
29-36	F8.2	Latitude (Degrees N , Minutes N )
37-44	F8.2	Longitude (Degrees E, Minutes E)
45-48	F4.0	Elevation (meters above sea level)
49-50	A2	Quality of time series (cf. below)





Quality mark Description
H	Homogeneous, rigorously tested and possibly adjusted 
T	Tested, possibly adjusted but not perfectly homogeneous
N	Not tested, but not necessarily inhomogeneous
E	Environmental changes prevent climatic change studies
I	Inhomogeneous series that is presently unadjustable 




Normal File: normal.dat

Normal values for the standard normal period 1961-1990 are
contained in the file normal.dat. The file contains normal
values from 14 stations, all described in the Station
Catalogue. The file is sorted by station number. Each record
of the file contains the mean monthly and annual values from
one station in the following format:

Position	 Format	Description

1-6	F6.0	Station number
7-14	F8.2	First (year, month) in normal period (always 1961,01)
15-22	F8.2	Last (year, month) in normal period (always 1990,12)
23-28	F6.0	January normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
29-34	F6.0	February normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
35-40 	F6.0	March normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
41-46 	F6.0	April normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
47-52 	F6.0	May normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
53-58 	F6.0	June normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
59-64 	F6.0	July normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
65-70 	F6.0	August normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
71-76 	F6.0	September normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
77-82 	F6.0	October normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
83-88 	F6.0	November normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
89-94 	F6.0	December normal value (hours of bright sunshine)
95-100 	F6.0	Annual normal value (hours of bright sunshine)





Monthly File: monthly.dat

Time series for the 29 station presented in this report
(13 1961-1990 series (the 14 minus the one from Kbenhavn, this being
included in the long Copenhagen series), the 1876-1997 Copenhagen
series and the 15 other series from various periods) are contained
in the file monthly.dat. The file is sorted by station number, year
and month (month 13 gives the annual sum). Each record of the file
contains one monthly value (or annual sum) for one station in the
following format:

Position	Format	Description

1-6	F6.0	Station number
7-12	F6.0	Year
13-18	F6.0	Month (1-12  and 13 for annual)
19-24	F6.0	Monthly sum of hours of bright sunshine (hours
		adjusted to CASELLA level). The annual sum is only
		calculated when 12 months are available.



