Alternate title

GCEW Weather Data

Date ( Publication )

2015-01-04

Purpose

Intentions are to (i) describe the climatological context of the Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed (GCEW) and Central Mississippi River Basin (CMRB) settings, (ii) document instrumentation and the data collection, quality assurance, and reduction processes; (iii) provide examples of the data obtained and descriptive statistics; and (iv) document the availability of and access methods to obtain the data from the web-based data access portal at http//www.nrrig.mwa.ars.usda.gov/stewards/stewards.html. These objectives support an overall goal to make these long-term data available to the public for use in further analyses and modeling in support of research and public policy on watershed management.

Status

On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services ( Theme )

• EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

GCMD Locations ( Place )

• CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MISSOURI

GCMD Locations ( Place )

• CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MISSOURI
• VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE

NASA Global Change Master Directory Instruments ( instrument )

• THERMOMETERS
• HYGROTHERMOGRAPHS
• RAIN GAUGES

NASA Global Change Master Directory Platforms ( platform )

• FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS

Data Source Affiliation ( Theme )

• United States Department of Agriculture > Agricultural Research Service > Long-Term Agroecosystem Research
• United States Department of Agriculture > Agricultural Research Service > Long-Term Agroecosystem Research > Central Mississippi River Basin

Hydrologic Unit Codes (HUC) ( Place )

• 071100060102

NRCS Major Land Resource Areas ( Theme )

• Central Feed Grains and Livestock Region=M > Central Claypan Areas=113

Ag Data Commons Keywords ( Theme )

• Agroecosystems & Environment
• Agroecosystems & Environment > Weather and Climate

Ag Data Commons Project Name ( project )

• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR
• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR > Central Mississippi River Basin

Crossref Funding ( Theme )

• Agricultural Research Service

OMB Bureau Codes ( Theme )

• Department of Agriculture=5 > Agricultural Research Service=005:018

Ag Data Common DOI Product Type ( Theme )

• Dataset

Primary Article Digital Object Identifier ( Theme )

• 10.2134/jeq2013.12.0515

Keywords ( Theme )

• U.S. Public Domain
• NP211

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) ( Theme )

• United States
• Agricultural Research Service
• cropping systems
• water quality
• weather
• streams
• watersheds
• Mississippi River
• agroecosystems
• rain gauges
• rain
• instrumentation
• data collection
• quality control
• statistics
• Internet
• models
• public policy
• watershed management

FIPS State/County Codes ( Theme )

• Missouri=29 > Boone County=29019
• Missouri=29 > Audrain County=29007

GCMD Instruments ( Theme )

• In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Recorders/Loggers > AWS=Automated Weather System
• In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Probes > SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
• In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Gauges > RAIN GAUGES

Ag Data Commons Data License Type ( Theme )

• Creative Commons CCZero

Federal Program Inventory ( Theme )

• Department of Agriculture=5 > National Research=005:040

Use limitation

Data management for the weather station data was done with the goal of a complete daily data record for the entire period of record, which was required to run process-level models. If gaps were left in the data, modelers would need to use their own methods, by interpolating or substituting data from other sources, which may result in different data and model results. However, local researchers, who also run such models, have identified replacement values and constructed a complete time series of best estimates.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Cite this dataset when used as a source.

Date ( Publication )

2015-01-04

Edition

Special Section of the Journal of Environmental Quality, 2015, Vol. 44 No. 1, p. 13-17

Identifier

doi:10.2134/jeq2013.12.0515

Initiative Type

sciencePaper

Date ( Publication )

2015-01-04

Identifier

PubAg ID forthcoming

Initiative Type

sciencePaper

Date ( Publication )

2015-01-04

Edition

Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed Weather Data Supplement

Initiative Type

sciencePaper

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Metadata language

eng

Topic category

• Environment
• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
• Farming

Environment description

Under both the chart and electronic configurations, data were collected weekly. Data from charts, as accumulated depth of rain, were reduced to breakpoint values and manually entered into computer files. Gauge readings in those files or later electronic datalogger files were converted to depth, which was then inspected for periods of increase and decrease using a computer program written for the purpose. Decreases caused by evaporation were set to zero, and increases were differenced to obtain rainfall depth accumulated in the interval.

Begin date

1969

OnLine resource

Rain Gauges ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Rain gauge network data

OnLine resource

Rain Gauges ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Rain gauge network data

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The rain gauge network has been in place since 1969, and daily temperature extremes have been recorded since 1971 as a complement to stream flow measurements established in 1971 (Baffaut et al., 2015). An automated weather station was added in 1993.

File identifier

GoodwaterWeather_jjm_2015-03-06_1530 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2020-02-10T15:32:13

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0