<1999 Webber IBP Plot Data Barrow Metadata.txt> This file contains meta-data for file <1972-99 Webber IBP Plot Info Barrow.txt>. Contains data collected on species and land cover and abundance from Webber's IBP plots in 19972 and 1999 at Barrow, Alaska. GENERAL INFORMATION PI/DATA CONTACT= Webber, Patrick J (MSU)/ Tweedie, Craig E FUNDING SOURCE AWARD # = NSF OPP 9906692 DATA COVERAGE = START: 19720701; STOP: 19990831 UTC PLATFORM/SITE = Barrow, Alaska (71o19'N 156o37'W); INSTRUMENT = None DATA VERSION = 1.0 (12 December 2001), PRELIMINARY [likely to contain errors] CONTACT INFORMATION Craig E. Tweedie 100 North Kedzie Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1031 Voice: 517 355-1285 Fax: 517 432-2150 Email: tweedie@msu.edu DATA Data summarizes plot information and sampling information relevent to the sampling of Wbber's IBP plots at Barrow in 1972 and 1999. META-DATA FORMAT The following prefixes have been used to designate data type. str - indicates string (text) data dtm - indicates date time data num - indicates numeric data mem - indicates memo data FIELD DESCRIPTIONS for <1972-99 Webber IBP Plot Info Barrow.txt> strPlotIdOld - Old tag label for plot installed in 1972. strPlotIdNew - New tag label for plot installed in 1998. numLat1 - 2nd GPS Longitude. numLat2 - 2nd GPS Longitude. numLon1 - 2nd GPS Latitude. numLon2 - 2nd GPS Latitude. dtmMeas99 - Date plot was sampled in 1999. dtmMeas72 - Date plot was sampled in 1972. memComments72 - Comments on sampling of plot in 1999. memComments99 - Comments on sampling of plot in 1999. NOTE Brian Noyle and Bob Hollister collected plot information. Craig Tweedie collated 1972, 1998 and 1999 data and performed data entry, quality checking and management. GPS locations were collected prior to Selective Availability being removed from the public GPS domain. Data will be finalized in summer 2002. strPlotIdOld data was used for management of all sampling data (see reference below). For information on species/land cover codes see: 1972-99 Webber IBP Plot Species Info Barrow Metadata.txt 1972-99 Webber IBP Plot Species Info Barrow.txt For information on the 1972 re-sampling see: 1972 Webber IBP Plot Data Barrow Metadata.txt 1972 Webber IBP Plot Data Barrow.txt For information on the 1999 re-sampling see: 1999 Webber IBP Plot Data Barrow Metadata.txt 1999 Webber IBP Plot Data Barrow.txt