Alternate title

WGEW Long-term meteorological database

Date ( Publication )

2008-03-08

Purpose

Basic weather elements such as air temperature and solar radiation and soil hydrology elements such as soil moisture and soil temperature are required by natural resource and hydrologic managers and researchers for agricultural, planning, modeling and engineering applications. Ground-based observations of these elements are used for development and calibration of ecohydrological models [Nouvellon et al., 2001; Hymer et al., 2000], evaluation of soil hydrology sensing technology [Paige and Keefer, 2008], statistical characterization of soil hydrology networks [Cosh et al., 2008; Gebremichael and Vivoni, 2008], ecohydrological studies [Scott et al., 2000], and more recently for comparison with land, aircraft and satellite-based remote sensors [Jackson et al., 2008; Thoma et al., 2008].

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services ( Theme )

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS
• EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > FLUVIAL LANDFORMS > WATERSHED/DRAINAGE BASIN
• EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > HEAT FLUX
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > NET RADIATION
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION

GCMD Locations ( Place )

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

NASA Global Change Master Directory Instruments ( instrument )

• RAIN GAUGES

Data Source Affiliation ( Theme )

• United States Department of Agriculture > Agricultural Research Service > Long-Term Agroecosystem Research > Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed

Hydrologic Unit Codes (HUC) ( Place )

• 150502020607

NRCS Major Land Resource Areas ( Theme )

• Western Range and Irrigated Region=D > Southeastern Arizona Basin and Range=41

Ag Data Commons Keywords ( Theme )

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

Ag Data Commons Project Name ( project )

• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR
• Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR > Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed

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 )

• 10.1029/2006WR005702

Related Article Digital Object Identifier ( Theme )

• 10.1029/2006WR005702

Ag Data Commons Data License Type ( Theme )

• Creative Commons CCZero

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) ( Theme )

• watersheds
• Arizona
• hydrology
• databases
• Agricultural Research Service
• weather stations
• soil profiles
• rain gauges
• air temperature
• relative humidity
• wind speed
• wind direction
• solar radiation
• photosynthetically active radiation
• soil water
• soil temperature
• managers
• researchers
• planning
• models
• engineering
• aircraft
• satellites
• remote sensing

Keywords

• meteorology
• WGEW
• NP211

FIPS State/County Codes ( Theme )

• Arizona=04 > Cochise County=04003

Federal Program Inventory ( Theme )

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

Use limitation

The initial data stream from field sites may contain missing values for any property because the station was not in operation intentionally or accidentally, the sensor was not deployed at that time, or there was data collection, communication or computer failure. Data determined to be collected during periods when a sensor was known to be inoperable (e.g., vandalism, animal or natural interference) were coded with missing values. Incoming data, after transformation from measured value to final units, if applicable, are screened by automated and visual graphic processes for outliers beyond acceptable limits.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Cite this dataset when used as a source.

Date ( Publication )

2008-03-08

Edition

VOL. 44, W05S07, doi:10.1029/2006WR005702, 2008

Identifier

doi:10.1029/2006WR005702

Initiative Type

sciencePaper

Date

Identifier

AGID: 17978

Initiative Type

sciencePaper

Metadata language

eng

Topic category

• Environment
• Farming

Begin date

1990

End date

2006

Supplemental Information

The original automated weather stations at Lucky Hills and Kendall and TDR trenches were funded by Monsoon'90. Stevens Hydra probes and IRTs at rain gauge sites were funded by ARS-NASA SMEX04, and current TDR sites were funded by NASA-JPL MOSS project.

File identifier

Walnutmeteorologic_jjm_2015-03-26_1049 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2019-08-27T16:56:52

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0