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Welker IPY snow shrub 2008 soil temperatures and soil water content Toolik, Alaska.
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Variables
Block
- Label: Block
- Definition: Locations of the set of treatments-one block consist of all four snow treatments: U = upper, S = south, N = north
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Treatment
- Label: Treatment
- Definition: Treatment-these are the four different snow manipulation treatments, C = control where now fence was put up, D = a drift treatment which is behind the snow fence (1 m x 15 m), DS = the drift plus shoveling which involved snow removal before melt and drift, DSW = plus shoveling plus added water after melt.
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Date
- Label: Date
- Definition: Date is the calendar day of flux measurements
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: dd-mmm-yyyy
- Missing values: None specified
Plot
- Label: Plot
- Definition: Plot is the subsamples within a treatment
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Type
- Label: Type
- Definition: Type is measurements in between tussocks or on tussocks
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Soil temperature
- Label: Soil temperature
- Definition: Soil temperature
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: celsius
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- . = Missing or Not Measured
soil water content
- Label: soil water content
- Definition: Soil water content
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: percent
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values:
- . = Missing or Not Measured