Rigorous Climatology Test


Important Bin Information

The Rigorous Climatology Test compares the average of the model runs with the average of the data. The list of days for which we have data is available here. It is not required by the test to submit model runs for each of these days, although, the more days submitted the better the accuracy. For this reason it is recommended that the model is submitted for all of the days listed if possible. If you want results for each of the metric bins, then in the profiles submitted there must be days from each bin present. These lists of days are available below and are arranged by hour. The latitude and longitude of Arecibo are also given below.

Complete day list
Low Solar/Winter
Low Solar/Equinox
Low Solar/Summer
Medium Solar/Winter
Medium Solar/Equinox
Medium Solar/Summer
High Solar/Winter
High Solar/Equinox
High Solar/Summer

Lat = 18 N
Long = 293 E


Required Format

Each day's worth of submitted profiles need to be in a data file titled 'profilesYYYYMMDD.dat'. For example, the title of the file containing all of my profiles for the day 2006/07/01 would be titled 'profiles20060701.dat'. Each submitted data file needs to have 7 columns. The data contained in each column is as follows

  • Column 1 = Year
  • Column 2 = Month
  • Column 3 = Day
  • Column 4 = hour(from 0 to 23)
  • Column 5 = Minute(Zero)
  • Column 6 = Altitude(150km to 800km in increments of 10km)
  • Column 7 = Density(In real space as opposed to log space)

    To the right is an example of what this may look like.


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     1985  12  19  0  0  780.  19014.845 
 1985  12  19  0  0  790.  18778.839 
 1985  12  19  0  0  800.  18560.003 
 1985  12  19  1  0  150.  886.90368 
 1985  12  19  1  0  160.  1538.2384 
 1985  12  19  1  0  170.  2612.9992 
 1985  12  19  1  0  180.  4421.7832 
 1985  12  19  1  0  190.  7602.0698 
 1985  12  19  1  0  200.  13470.006
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