Hourly weather data from Toolik Field Station, ARC LTER, Alaska for 2002.

Abstract: 

Hourly weather data from the Arctic Tundra LTER site at Toolik Lake. The following parameters are measured every minute and averaged or totaled every hour: air temperature and relative humidity at 1 and 5 meters, wind speed at 1 and 5 meters, wind direction at 5 meters, global solar radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, barometric pressure, and unfrozen precipitation.

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Data set ID: 

1497

EML revision ID: 

1
Published on EDI/LTER Data Portal

Citation: 

Shaver, G. 2003. Hourly weather data from Toolik Field Station, ARC LTER, Alaska for 2002. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e4c1accf140f9b56e9e015b32eebfd41
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Dates

Date Range: 

Tuesday, January 1, 2002 to Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Publication Date: 

2003

Methods: 

Weather data has been collected at Toolik Lake by a Campbell 21x datalogger since June 1988. Sensors that are measured every minute and averaged or totaled every hour include: air temperature and relative humidity at 1 and 5 meters, wind speed at 1 and 5 meters, wind direction at 5 meters, global solar radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, barometric pressure, and unfrozen precipitation. Sensors measured every 10 minutes and averaged every three hours include, soil temperatures, lake temperature, lake depth, and evaporation pan depth and pan water temperature. Net radiation and pan evaporation are only measured during the summer months. The hourly data are in the file yyyyDLTLH.DAT, the three hourly data are in yyyyDLTLO.DAT, and daily summaries are in yyyyDLTLD.DAT. A second Campbell 21x datalogger about 700 meters from the main weather station logs air and soil temperatures and photosynthetically active radiation in the experimental treatment plots. Treatments include greenhouse, shading, and fertilization. In the control plot wind speed and direction, global solar radiation and unfrozen precipitation are also measured. This station is also used as a backup to the main weather station. The full description of the sensors and site is in file SENSORS.DOC. The original data is in file yyyyDLTDAT.ZIP, which is archived at The Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA.

Notes: Wind Speed less than .447 is considered calm. Lake quantum stopped working in winter 1991 and was reinstalled just for the summer of 1998,1999. Quantum has an offset of -1.4 to -2.7. The data is not corrected. For the global solar radiation and photosynthetically active radiation sensors no attempt is made to correct for frost or snow on the sensors during the winter months. Therefore winter radiation data should be view as suspect and used only qualitatively. August 1998 the tipping rain gage was fitted with a Campbell CS705 adapter for measuring snow. A Wyoming wind shield was build for the precipitation gage 30Aug99.
See additional notes under Comments variable.

The 5 meter sensors tower can down on May14 to June 2. It only affected the 5 meter temperature and wind sensors.
From 4 Jun02 through 23Aug02 replaced 5 meter vapor pressure calculation with 1 meter. The 5 meter RH sensor was not working.

Reference Citations: Buck, A.L.. 1981 New equations for computing
vapor pressure and enhancement factor. Journal of Applied Meteorology
20:1527-1532.

Version Changes: 

DATA FILE VALIDATION:
NAME: Jim Laundre
DATE:5Jul2002
Ver. 3 Corrected the units on rain - was milliliter, should be millimeter. Added better lat long and elevation data. Jim L Nov 2008.
Version 4: Added LTERNET Data Access server proxy for Excel and comma delimited data files.
Version 5: Upadte LTERNET Data Access server proxy link for Excel and comma delimited data files. Changed from knb to das in url.
Version 6: Metadata updated to newer form (with sites sheet). Units updated to current standards. Discrepancy with variable names fixed. CH April 2013.
Version 7: Corrected Distrubution URL. It had xlsfiles in the path. Jim L 19Jun14
Version 8: Changed Distrubution URL since the LTER network DAS system is being discontinued. JimL 9Apr2015

Sites sampled.

Full Metadata and data files (either comma delimited (csv) or Excel) - Environmental Data Initiative repository.

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