Welker IPY snow fence shrub site soil temperatures and soil water content Toolik, Alaska 2008.

Abstract: 

Soil temperature from three locations on the eastern side of the Toolik River where by snow fences were established as part of IPY. This is a study of how soil temperatures at 10 cm and soil moisture change across the summer at our IPY snow fence site .

Project Keywords: 

Data set ID: 

10112

EML revision ID: 

4
Published on EDI/LTER Data Portal

Citation: 

Welker, J., Sullivan, P. 2011. Welker IPY snow fence shrub site soil temperatures and soil water content Toolik, Alaska 2008. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4966e339bb9da53ce005bc75b84eab56
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Dates

Date Range: 

Saturday, June 7, 2008 to Sunday, August 31, 2008

Publication Date: 

2011

Methods: 

This is soil temperature from three locations on the eastern side of the Toolik River where by snow fences were established as part of IPY. Measurements were taken at 3 locations (3 replicates) with four treatments, control, drift, drift and shoveled and drift, shoveled and watered ( C, D, DS, DSW). The three replicates were called: upper, south, north (U, S, N).

At approximately biweekly periods we have measured soil temperature (oC) at 10 cm using a hand held thermometer probe inserted into the soil and we used a Water sense probe (dialectic method) to measure soil water content by volume. These measurements were taken in conjunction with our periodic CO2 flux measurements.

Version Changes: 

Version 1 : Mar 2011 Received file from Jeff Welker. Updated the metadata sheet and created eml files and web files. JimL
Version 2: Corrected Distribution URL. It had xlsfiles in the path. Jim L 19Jun14
Version 3: Changed Distrubution URL since the LTER network DAS system is being discontinued. JimL 9Apr2015

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