USDA/NRCS Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.008

Summary
This data set contains hourly resolution surface meteorological and soils data
from the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources
Conservation Service (USDA/NRCS) Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN). This
data set includes data from the SCAN stations in the SMEX02 region for the
period from 1 June to 31 July 2002. The data are columnar ASCII format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 80.008
 * doi:10.26023/H9B8-2GT4-DC13
   https://doi.org/10.26023/H9B8-2GT4-DC13

Versions
  1.0

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 Schaefer, G., Huffman, D., Paetzold, R. 2005. SMEX02: USDA/NRCS Soil Climate
 Analysis Network (SCAN) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/H9B8-2GT4-DC13 Accessed 07 Dec 2023.

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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
 * SMEX02: Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SMEX02

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

Categories
 * Sub-Surface

Platforms
 * Weather Stations

Instruments
 * Automated Weather System
 * Soil Moisture Probe
 * Soil Temperature Probe

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > HOURLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Documentation
 * SCAN.txt [89 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/3F897F4/SCAN.txt

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2002-06-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2002-07-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 44.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 34.50
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -99.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: Ron F. Paetzold <ron.paetzold@usda.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/60
 * author: Garry L. Schaefer <gschaefer@wcc.nrcs.usda.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/186
 * author: Don Huffman <dhuffman@wcc.nrcs.usda.gov>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/378

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.008?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/80.008?format=isotc211