Soil Climate, Atmospheric, and Borehole Data at Scott Base, Marble Point, Mount Fleming, Bull Pass, Granite Harbour, Minna Bluff, Victoria Valley, Don Juan Pond and Bull Pass East, Antarctica
There are nine soil climate stations located in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica that were established starting in 1999 through 2011. Four of the stations are in the Dry Valleys and four are located along the coast. The ninth station is located on Mt. Fleming near the polar plateau. Each climate station measures atmospheric parameters (air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation) and soil parameters (soil moisture and temperature) that extend from the active layer (seasonally thawed layer) into the permafrost. Recorded measurements are made on an hourly basis. At each climate station the soils have been sampled and characterized at the Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory.
There are two borehole stations at Bull Pass and Marble Point which measure ground temperature and are used to study permafrost temperatures and active-layer thermal regimes to a depth of 30m.
Further station and borehole details including the instruments' specification, maintenance, and measured variables are described in each site's data "_description" folder.
GET DATA: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/soil-climate-research-stations
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-08-10T16:56:18
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-08-10T16:56:18
Identifier
- Status
- onGoing On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Date of next update
- 2023-08-10T16:56:24
- GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
-
- SOIL TEMPERATURE
- HUMIDITY
- SURFACE WINDS
- AIR TEMPERATURE
- SOLAR RADIATION
- ACTIVE LAYER
- SOIL MOISTURE
- WATER VAPOR
- GCMD Platform/Sources Keywords
-
- WEATHER STATIONS
- GCMD Instrument/Sensors Keywords
-
- SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
- AWS
- SOIL MOISTURE PROBE
- GCMD Locations Keywords
-
- ANTARCTICA
- ROSS ISLAND
- Theme
-
- SCOTT BASE
- MARBLE POINT
- MOUNT FLEMMING
- BULL PASS
- GRANITE HARBOUR
- MINNA BLUFF
- VICTORIA VALLEY
- DON JUAN POND
- BULL PASS
- MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS
- K123A
- Use limitation
- This data set conforms to the CC BY-NC Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date
- Statement
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- gmd:disseminationConstraints
- License
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1999-04-01T00:00:00
- Supplemental Information
- Any additional comments about this dataset
- Distribution format
-
- File identifier
- 6bc04f66-3e79-4591-9030-0016fe8dbd27 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- anyValidURI
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-04-17T00:10:26
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115-1
- Metadata standard version
- 2018