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Precipitation data from four locations within the Tromble Weir experimental watershed, located at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2010-2019

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:knb-lter-jrn.210338002.2
Title:Precipitation data from four locations within the Tromble Weir experimental watershed, located at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2010-2019
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

This data package contains one-minute resolution precipitation data from tipping bucket rain gauges (Texas Electronics) at four locations in the Tromble Weir watershed area of the Jornada Basin in southern New Mexico, USA. These rain gauges are used to help quantify the water balance across the small experimental watershed. Values have been used to investigate groundwater recharge, soil infiltration rates, and as forcings for hydrologic models. This is an ongoing dataset that will be updated annually.

Publication Date:2020-02-04

Time Period
Begin:
2010-07-01
End:
2019-12-31

People and Organizations
Contact:Vivoni, Enrique R. (Arizona State University) 
Contact:Data Manager(Jornada Basin LTER) [  email ]
Creator:Vivoni, Enrique R. (Arizona State University)
Creator:Perez-Ruiz, Eli R. (Arizona State University)
Creator:Schreiner-McGraw, Adam P. (Arizona State University)
Creator:Templeton, Ryan C. (Arizona State University)
Creator:Anderson, Cody A. (Arizona State University)

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
One minute precipitation data (mm) from 4 rain gauges in the Tromble experimental watershed.
Description:
One minute precipitation data (mm) from 4 rain gauges in the Tromble experimental watershed.
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Data Entities

Data Table

Data:https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-jrn/210338002/2/d32fddd3b5599e4f8a856964307d5367
Name:One minute precipitation data (mm) from 4 rain gauges in the Tromble experimental watershed.
Description:One minute precipitation data (mm) from 4 rain gauges in the Tromble experimental watershed.
Number of Records:4998088
Number of Columns:6

Table Structure
Object Name:JRN_338002_Tromble_precip_data.csv
Size:140057070 bytes
Authentication:45c155e006268a2b0d89b1aa5e9ee759 Calculated By MD5
Text Format:
Number of Header Lines:1
Record Delimiter:\n
Orientation:column
Simple Delimited:
Field Delimiter:,

Table Column Descriptions
 
Column Name:date  
time  
R_tower  
R2  
R3  
R4  
Definition:Date of observationTime of observationTower rain gauge precipitation (mm)Rain gauge 2 precipitation (mm)Rain gauge 3 precipitation (mm)Rain gauge 4 precipitation (mm)
Storage Type:date  
date  
float  
float  
float  
float  
Measurement Type:dateTimedateTimeratioratioratioratio
Measurement Values Domain:
FormatYYYY-MM-DD
Precision
Formathh:mm:ss
Precision
Unitmillimeter
Typereal
Min0 
Max9.4 
Unitmillimeter
Typereal
Min0 
Max2.4 
Unitmillimeter
Typereal
Min0 
Max2.3 
Unitmillimeter
Typereal
Min0 
Max2.1 
Missing Value Code:            
Accuracy Report:            
Accuracy Assessment:            
Coverage:            
Methods:            

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
LTER Controlled Vocabularyhydrologic processes, hydrology, precipitation, rain, watersheds, deserts
Jornada Project Namesstudy 338, Tromble Watershed
JRN Dataset KeywordsHydrology, long-term, ongoing
Jornada Place NamesTromble Watershed
LTER Core AreaDisturbance
(No thesaurus)tipping bucket, rain gauge, tipping bucket rain gauge, TBRG

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

General study design

The Tromble Weir Watershed is a small experimental watershed located in the East Bajada geomorphic unit of the Jornada Basin in southern New Mexico, USA. We have instrumented this watershed, which consists of a mixed Chihuahuan Desert shrubland, and have on-going measurements and modeling studies of hydrological, meteorological and phenological processes. The instrument network consists of 15 soil moisture profiles arranged along hillslope transects. A network of rain gauges and channel runoff flumes are also deployed.

This data package contains data from four tipping bucket rain gauges in the Tromble Watershed. One is located at the eddy covariance tower and three others are distributed within the watershed, co-located with three transects of instrumented soil profiles.

Instruments and methods

Instruments used

Gauges R2, R3 and R4: Texas Instrument (TE525MM-L) tipping bucket rain gauge with 9.66in orifice. Each tip represents 0.1mm.

Gauge R_tower: Texas Instrument (TE525-L) tipping bucket rain gauge with 6in orifice. Each tip represents 0.254mm.

Methods (QC and data preparation)

First, erroneous values (IE: 7999) were queried and removed from the raw data. Then data was checked again, to ensure all outliers were removed. Next, the raw data was summed to one-minute resolution and checked again for errors. Lastly, the one-minute resolution precipitation data was synchronized with an already created one-minute resolution timetable spanning the dates from Oct 2016 to Dec 2019. Gaps between recorded precipitation events were filled with zero values for no recorded precipitation. Finally, to complete the record from 2010 to 2019 the new data from 2016-2019 was appended to the end of the data spanning 2010-2016.

Specifics and related publications

The specifics of the instrumentation (including location), site, and research methods used at the Tromble Weir watershed can be found in the following publications:

Templeton, Ryan C., Enrique R. Vivoni, Luis A. Méndez-Barroso, Nicole A. Pierini, Cody A. Anderson, Albert Rango, Andrea S. Laliberte, and Russell L. Scott. "High-resolution characterization of a semiarid watershed: Implications on evapotranspiration estimates." Journal of Hydrology 509 (2014): 306-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.11.047

Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro,and T. E. Franz. "Closing the water balance with cosmic-ray soil moisture measurements and assessing their relation to evapotranspiration in two semiarid watersheds." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20 (2016):329–345. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-329-2016

TE525MM-L instrument specifics: https://www.campbellsci.com/te525mm-l

TE525-L instrument specifics: https://www.campbellsci.com/te525-l

Related data packages

Complementary data, such as soil water content and meteorology data at the rain gauge locations in this data package, can be found in other data packages on EDI.

knb-lter-jrn.210338004 - Tromble Watershed soil water content sensor data (co-located with 3 rain gauges in this dataset)

knb-lter-jrn.210338005 - Eddy flux data at the Tromble micromet tower

knb-lter-jrn.210338006 - Standard meteorology and ancillary data at the Tromble micromet tower

People and Organizations

Creators:
Individual: Enrique R. Vivoni
Organization:Arizona State University
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-9459
Individual: Eli R. Perez-Ruiz
Organization:Arizona State University
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4954-0238
Individual: Adam P. Schreiner-McGraw
Organization:Arizona State University
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3424-9202
Individual: Ryan C. Templeton
Organization:Arizona State University
Individual: Cody A. Anderson
Organization:Arizona State University
Contacts:
Individual: Enrique R. Vivoni
Organization:Arizona State University
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-9459
Individual: Data Manager
Organization:Jornada Basin LTER
Email Address:
datamanager.jrn.lter@gmail.com

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
2010-07-01
End:
2019-12-31
Geographic Region:
Description:The Tromble watershed is located in the East Bajada geomorphic unit of the Jornada Basin.
Bounding Coordinates:
Northern:  32.68957116Southern:  32.53118449
Western:  -106.6846111Eastern:  -106.5903632

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:Jornada Basin LTER
Personnel:
Individual: Enrique R. Vivoni
Organization:Arizona State University
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-9459
Role:Principal Investigator
Funding: NSF: DEB-1832194

Maintenance

Maintenance:
Description:Ongoing. These data are updated annually.
Frequency:

Additional Info

Additional Information:
 

P_avg=R20.221283+R30.334527+R4*0.44419

UTM coordinates (Zone 13 N) of the locations of each of the 4 rain gauges are as follows:

EC Tower: 3606407.793 Northing, 349528.844 Easting

Rain gauge 1: 3606454.229 Northing, 349126.402 Easting

Rain gauge 2: 3606407.928 Northing, 349150.227 Easting

Rain gauge 3: 3606483.448 Northing, 349214.509 Easting

Rain gauge 4: 3606425.459 Northing, 349377.237 Easting

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