Date

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture	Tony Tolsdorf	tony.tolsdorf@por.usda.gov	Originator
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture	Michael Strobel	michael.strobel@por.usda.gov	Originator
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture	Deb Harms	deb.harms@por.usda.gov	Originator

Purpose

Soil water status and soil temperature are critical parameters for many applications, including continental-scale climate models, soil classification, and drought assessment.

National resource management issues for which long-term soil / climate information is needed include To monitor drought development and trigger plans and policies for mitigation, Investigate climate change scenarios, To predict the long-term sustainability of cropping systems, and watershed health, To monitor and predict changes in crop, range, and woodland productivity in relation to soil moisture-temperature changes, To predict regional shifts in irrigation water requirements which may affect reservoir construction and ground-water levels, To predict shifts in wetlands, To develop new soil moisture accounting and risk

assessments, To predict changes in runoff that affect flooding and flood control structures, To verify and ground-truth satellite and

soil moisture model information, To predict and mitigate pest and disease outbreaks, For soil classification, For energy conservation, For Input to global circulation models

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture		Tony.Tolsdorf@POR.usda.gov	Resource provider
United States Department of Agriculture		nrcsprod@midatl.service-now.com	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services

• EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS

• EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

• EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > LAND SURFACE/AGRICULTURE INDICATORS > SOIL MOISTURE

• EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

• EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION

• EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL SALINITY/SOIL SODICITY

• EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL SALINITY/SOIL SODICITY

GCOS Essential Climate Variables

• Terrestrial > Soil moisture

• Atmospheric > Surface > Precipitation

• Atmospheric > Surface > Wind speed and direction

• Atmospheric > Surface > Air temperature

GCMD Locations

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

GCMD Locations

• SOLID EARTH > CRUST

NASA Global Change Master Directory Instruments

• THERMOMETERS

• RAIN GAUGES

• BAROMETERS

• HUMIDITY SENSORS

• ANEMOMETERS

• WIND VANES

• SOIL MOISTURE PROBE

• SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE

• PYROMETERS

Theme

• Falls County

• Site #2199

• Micromet Hmp45c

• Pulse Count

• Hydraprobe

• Battery System

• Licor 200 Pyronometer

Data Source Affiliation

• United States Department of Agriculture > Agricultural Research Service > Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

• United States Department of Agriculture > Agricultural Research Service > Long-Term Agroecosystem Research > Texas Gulf

Ag Data Commons Keywords

• Agroecosystems & Environment

• Agroecosystems & Environment > Soil

• Agroecosystems & Environment > Atmosphere

Ag Data Commons Project Name

• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR

• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR > Texas Gulf

Crossref Funding

• U.S. Department of Agriculture

OMB Bureau Codes

• Department of Agriculture=5

Ag Data Common DOI Product Type

• Dataset

Ag Data Commons Data License Type

• U.S. Public Domain

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT)

• data collection

• air temperature

• relative humidity

• solar radiation

• wind speed

• soil temperature

• soil water

• climate

• Texas

• feet

• climate models

• soil classification

• drought

• resource management

• issues and policy

• climate change

• cropping systems

• watersheds

• woodlands

• irrigation water

• water table

• wetlands

• risk assessment

• runoff

• flood control

• satellites

• models

• pests

• disease outbreaks

• energy conservation

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Cite this dataset when used as a source.

Title

Soil Moisture / Soil Temperature Pilot Project Final Report

Date (Publication)

2004-01-22

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture			Originator

Association Type

Source

Initiative Type

userGuide

Title

Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)

Date (Publication)

2014-10-20

Cited responsible party

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture			Originator

Association Type

Source

Initiative Type

Task

Language

eng

Topic category

• Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
• Environment
• Farming

Begin date

2013-09-10

Supplemental Information

The Soil Moisture/Soil Temperature (SM/ST) Pilot Project was proposed in 1990 to test the feasibility of establishing a national soil-climate monitoring program that meets the growing demands of the global climate change community, modelers, resource managers, soil scientists, ecologists, and others. The project, a cooperative effort by the Resource Inventory Division and the Soil Survey Division of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, was to examine network communications, sensors, data collection electronics, station maintenance, data management, system interfaces, and management of a large national program.

Installation of 21 stations (in 19 states) began in 1991 and was completed the following year. Air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, soil temperature, and soil moisture were measured. Many changes were made to the original design, in response to lessons learned during the course of the project. Every aspect of the measurement system was evaluated critically and improved where practical.

Metadata

File identifier

Riesel_eaa_2015_February_24_076 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Parent identifier

DRAFT Long-Term Agricultural Research (LTAR) network - Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Collection

c595bb9e-18e7-46f1-9cde-a2a6d92070f2

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2019-09-10T17:14:04

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
USDA National Agricultural Library	* Erin Antognoli	erin.antognoli@ars.usda.gov	Author