Description
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The purpose of this study was to collect and distribute ground-truth soil water content and meteorological data in the Houston, TX, area, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and the 2022 field campaign for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The files herein contain soil water content and meteorological data for four stations that the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin installed in the area of study during period of performance. Each station produces two data files. First, file names ending with “_Soil_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly volumetric soil water content and temperature measured at 5, 10, 20 and 50 cm depths. File names ending with “_Meteoro_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly measured precipitation, air temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation. All data have undergone QA/QC procedures that are described by Caldwell et al. (2019) and Dorigo et al. (2013) for the soil-specific data, and EPA (2008) for the meteorological data. Caldwell, T.G., T. Bongiovanni, M. Cosh, T. Jackson, A. Colliander, C.J. Abolt, T. Larson, B.R. Scanlon, M.H. Young. 2019. The Texas Soil Observation Network: A comprehensive soil moisture dataset for remote sensing and land surface model validation. Vadose Zone. J. doi:10.2136/vzj2019.04.0034. Dorigo, W.A., A. Xaver, M. Vreugdenhil, A. Gruber, A. Hegyiova, A.D. Sanchis-Dufau, et al. 2013. Global automated quality control of in situ soil moisture data from the International Soil Moisture Network. Vadose Zone J. 12(3). doi:10.2136/vzj2012.0097. [EPA] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2008. Quality Assurance Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems, Volume IV: Meteorological Measurements Version 2.0 (Final). EPA-454/B-08-002, March 2008. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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