Dataset: Raw Mount Mansfield West Meteorological Data

Methods

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Current Methods

• Data from Mount Mansfield station
  Started: 1997-01-01
  

  This Mount Mansfield station provides basic meteorological variables including wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, total solar irradiance, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and precipitation during non-freezing months. The station is located within a mixed aspen-birch spruce-fir forest, and represents mid-elevation forest meteorology.

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  Started: 1997-01-01
  

  Data are automatically downloaded via radio frequency (RF) modem on a daily basis, with 15 minute average records collected and stored during each downloading cycle. Hourly and daily data formats are made available.

Dataset Fields

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Sampling Equipment

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Current Equipment

• Data logger, weather sensors, rain gauge
  Started: 1997-01-01
  

  Campbell CR 10X datalogger with automated weather station sensors on a 3 meter tower. Tipping bucket rain gage (unheated).

Site Characteristics

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• Site Description

  West slope of Mount Mansfield, in the Browns River watershed, off the CCC road within paper birch, spruce and fir forest. Approximate coordinates: 44.5244 N, 72.8267 W. Approximate elevation: 2678 feet

Dataset Notes

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