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1-hour Weather Observations — GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment

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One-hour observations from the weather stations at the Marginal Land Experiment (MLE) sites. Observations are given as averages and totals for the hour.

This datatable is part of the Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment dataset.

This dataset contains data from the GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment established in 2018 to examine the effects of drought on switchgrass production and composition. Rainfall exclusion (rainout) shelters are deployed over the growing season in fertilized split plots of the Switchgrass treatment (G5) at all sites of the Marginal Land Experiment (MLE) and in the Switchgrass treatment (G5) plots of the Biofuel Cropping System Experiment (BCSE) at the KBS GLBRC Intensive Site, which serves as a reference for cropped soils with higher fertility. Rainout shelters are deployed in four G5 replicate plots of the BCSE (R2-R5) and of the MLE (R1-R4) at all sites except Wisconsin Central–Hancock (R2-R4), which has only three replicates.

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Experiment: GLBRC Marginal Land Rainfall Exclusion Experiment
Data available from: December 2015 to April 2020
Dataset: GLBRC134
Datatable ID: GLBRC134-005.123
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Last Updated 2023-10-24
Variate Description Units
location the weather station location
datetime the date and time in UTC
datetime in est the date and time in the Eastern Standard time zone
battery voltage min v Minimum battery voltage
vwc avg volumetric water content at 10 cm (fraction)
vwc 2 avg volumetric water content at 25 cm (fraction)
soil temp 1 avg soil temperature at 10 cm C
soil temp 2 avg soil temperature at 25 cm C
airtc avg air temperature at 2 m C
rh relative humidity (%)
par den avg PAR density average
par tot tot PAR total mmol/m^2
ws ms avg wind speed average
rainfall mm tot rainfall in mm mm
slrmj tot solar radiation

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Data Excerpt

location datetime datetime_in_est battery_voltage_min_v vwc_10_cm_avg vwc_25_cm_avgj soil_temp_1_avg soil_temp_2_avg airtc_avg rh par_den_avg par_tot_tot ws_ms_avg rain_mm_tot slrmj_tot
Escanaba 2026-01-07 19:00:00 +0000 2026-01-07 14:00:00 UTC 10.96 0.302 0.311 1.034 1.402 0.656 93.9 326.4305 1175.118 2.236 0.3181964
Lux Arbor 2026-01-07 19:00:00 +0000 2026-01-07 14:00:00 UTC 12.14 0.33 0.354 1.702 2.023 2.366 100.0 104.2626 375.3451 1.568 0.1368021
Rhinelander 2026-01-07 19:00:00 +0000 2026-01-07 14:00:00 UTC 11.38 0.172 0.128 0.671 0.966 -0.221 7.157 505.1896 1711.529 0.863 0.4349736
Escanaba 2026-01-07 18:00:00 +0000 2026-01-07 13:00:00 UTC 10.94 0.302 0.311 0.983 1.402 0.203 93.8 318.8216 1147.727 2.877 0.3108673
Lux Arbor 2026-01-07 18:00:00 +0000 2026-01-07 13:00:00 UTC 12.13 0.329 0.354 1.721 2.033 2.035 100.0 90.55866 326.0108 1.862 0.1178667
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