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WA_SOIL_TEMP_2_DAT

Comment:

This Table contains soil temperature and heat flux.

Principal investigator:

Henk A.R. DE BRUIN

The fields of the table are:

1. GRID_ID : This column contains the name of the grid where the data was taken.
2. GRID_ORDER : This column contains the number of the station in the grid cell.
3. OBS_DATE : This column contains the date on which the observation was made in the format ( DD-MON-YY ).
4. OBS_TIME : This column contains the time on which the observation was made in GMT.
5. DECIMAL_TIME : This column contains the decimal time.
6. LOCATION_CODE : This column contains the location code ( 3= Center of bush, 4=West of bush, 5=East of bush, 6=Sunlit gras ).
7. SOIL_TEMPERATURE : This column contains the soil temperature ( degrees Celcius, depth = 03 cm ).
8. SOIL_HEAT_FLUX : This column contains the vertical soil heat flux (flux plates) ( W m-2 ).
9. CERT_LEVEL : This column contains the certification level for the data : T)est,C)hecked by PI, U)nchecked by PI.
10. REV_DATE : This column contains the revision date for the data in the format DD-MMM-YY.

Associated keywords

• Soil Heat Flux
• Soil Temperature

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