It is ASCII file with 15 columns. From column C1 to C17: C1: id of weather station (stn_id) C2: year C3: month C4: day C5: daily averaged temperature (0.1C) (tm) C6: daily maximum temperature (0.1C) (tmax) C7: daily minimum temperature (0.1C) (tmin) C8: averaged relative humidity (%) (um) C9: daily minimum relative humidify (%) (umin) C10: total cloud amount (0.01) (n_sum) C11: low cloud amount (0.01) (n_lowm) C12: averaged wind speed (0.1m/s) (fsm) C13: direction of maximum wind speed (fmaxx) C14: maximum wind speed (fmaxs) C15: precipitation (0.1mm) (rsum) C16: ground surface temperature (0.1C) (d0m) C17: sunshine during time (h) (sun) The file is like this: sta_id year month day tm tmax tmin um umin n_summ n_lowm fsm fmaxx fmaxs rsum d0m sun 52645 1959 2 1 -175 -79 -291 29 300 20 15 32 32744 32744 0 32766 85 52645 1959 2 2 -146 -78 -188 25 300 58 20 48 32744 32744 0 32766 56 ......