ReadMe for atmospheric forecast data ------------------------------------ Atmospheric forecast is provided by Finnish Meteorological institute https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/open-data. The data is combination of forecast edited by meteorologist and automatically produced nowcast. The data is in files named atm_forecast_Month_Year.txt Files contain data used as input for the road weather simulations. The original forecast data consisted of forecast files that were produced hourly and contained forecast for 10 days. The included files contain only the data that was used by the simulations. The data for each simulation was extracted so that in the initialization phase, data for each time step was from the newest forecast file that contained data for that time step. The atmospheric values for the forecast phase were from the latest forecast file that would have been available at the forecast start time. The atmospheric data for different simulation start times are separated by: ----------------- YearMonthDayHourMinute ----------------- Data for each forecast point is separated by forecast coordinates: lat lon After the coordinates, the data contains air temperature, humidity, wind speed and precipitation phase values with following structure: Column variable 1. Year 2. Month 3. Day 4. Hour 5. Minute 6. Second 7. Air temperautre (C) 8. Relative humidity (%) 9. Wind speed (m/s) 10. Precipitation phase 0 = Drizzle , 1 = Rain , 2 = Sleet , 3 = Snow , 4 = Freezing drizzle , 5 = Freezing rain , 6 = Hail After these, there is data for short-wave radiation, long-wave radiation and precipitation: Column variable 1. Year 2. Month 3. Day 4. Hour 5. Minute 6. Second 7. Short-wave radiation (W/m2) 8. Long-wave radiation (W/m2) 9. Precipitation (mm/h)