ARM Soil Water and Temperature System (SWATS) Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/85.030

Summary
This data set contains hourly resolution soil temperature and moisture data at
5, 15, 25, 35, 60, 85, 125, 175 cm depths from the Department of Energy (DOE)
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Soil Water
and Temperature System (SWATS). These SWATS stations are located at many of
the ARM SGP Extended Facilities in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. This
data set covers the period from 20 May to 07 July 2003. These data are in
netCDF format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 85.030
 * doi:10.26023/YX0Y-W8QK-BG13
   https://doi.org/10.26023/YX0Y-W8QK-BG13

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 2008. BAMEX: ARM Soil
 Water and Temperature System (SWATS) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/YX0Y-W8QK-BG13 Accessed 20 Apr
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * BAMEX: Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment 2003
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/BAMEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sub-Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Soil Moisture Probe
 * Soil Temperature Probe

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL HORIZONS/PROFILE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

Documentation
 * mesonet_ARMSWATS.htm [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/418CF873/mesonet_ARMSWATS.htm

Related links
 * homepage: BAMEX Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/bamex
 * info: BAMEX Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/bamex/catalog/missions.html
 * info: BAMEX Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/bamex-data-policy

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2003-05-20 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2003-07-07 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 38.40
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 34.80
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -99.40
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -95.70

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Chad Bahrmann <cbahrmann@ou.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/333

Additional contact information
 * author: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2126

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/85.030?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/85.030?format=isotc211