TITLE: Mesonet ABLE Whitewater, KS Soil Temperature and Moisture Data [DOE] CONTACTS: General ABLE Information: Richard L. Coulter - ER 203 Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Voice: 630 252-5833 Fax: 630 252-5498 Email: rl_coulter@anl.gov Sensor Information: David Cook (drcook@anl.gov) Dataflow Information: Timothy Martin (tjmartin@anl.gov) 1.0 DATA SET OVERVIEW This data set contains 30-minute resolution soil water content and soil temperature at 7.5, 22.5, 37.5, 60, 90, and 120 cm depths from the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments (ABLE) operated by the Argonne National Laboratory in the Walnut River Watershed in Butler County Kansas (east of Wichita). This data set includes data from the Whitewater, Kansas site. Data cover the period from 20 May to 25 June 2003 The data are in columnar ASCII format. 2.0 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION 2.1 Instrumentation Sensor Information: David Cook (drcook@anl.gov) 2.2 Station Location UTM km (Zone 14) Site 99 deg Meridan DEG dddmmmsss ddmm.mm Alt (m) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whitewater, KS 4189.5 UTMN km 37.841 37 50' 26" 37 51.43' 416 659.6 UTME km 97.186 97 11' 10" 97 11.16' Topo maps and aerial photos are available at: gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ABLE/sitelatlon.html 3.0 DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING Dataflow Information: Timothy Martin (tjmartin@anl.gov) UCAR/JOSS conducted no processing or quality control on these data. 4.0 DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING 4.1 Data Format These data are in columnar ASCII format. Format for Whitewater TDR short records (ID=1): column variable 1 year 2 jday (1-366) 3 hour (GMT) 4 minute 5 ID 6 probe number 7 soil water content, 1-16 cm depth (fraction) 8 soil water content, 16-31 cm depth (fraction) 9 soil water content, 31-61 cm depth (fraction) 10 soil water content, 61-91 cm depth (fraction) 11 soil water content, 91-121 cm depth (fraction) TDR Probe locations are: ID=1 14.9 m north of center of array ID=2 14.9 m east of center of array ID=3 14.9 m south of center of array ID=4 14.9 m west of center of array long records (ID=2), soil temperatures at, sequentially, 7.5, 22.5, 37.5, 60, 90, and 120 cm depth: column variable 1 year 2 jday (1-366) 3 hour (GMT) 4 minute 5 ID 6-11 soil temperature (degrees C) at 14.9 m north of center of array 12-17 soil temperature (degrees C) at 42.8 north of center of array 18-23 soil temperature (degrees C) at 14.9 m east of center of array 24-29 soil temperature (degrees C) at 42.8 m east of center of array 30-35 soil temperature (degrees C) at 14.9 m south of center of array 36-41 soil temperature (degrees C) at 42.8 m south of center of array 42-47 soil temperature (degrees C) at 14.9 m west of center of array 48-53 soil temperature (degrees C) at 42.8 m west of center of array All times are UTC. 4.2 File Naming conventions wh030612.vwc where: wh is the station ID (here Whitewater) 03 is the year (2003) 06 is the month (June) 12 is the day of month 5.0 DATA REMARKS None. 6.0 REFERNCES ABLE Home Page: gonzalo.er.anl.gov/ABLE/index.html