Raw soil carbon dioxide, moisture, temperature and micrometeorological data in the East River Watershed, Colorado June 2021-June 2024. (DE-SC0021139)

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This dataset contains raw data from four tripod stations along an elevation gradient on Snodgrass Mountain in the East River Watershed, CO, USA. Each station contains a datalogger connected to 3 soil Carbon Dioxide CO2 gas probes, 3 soil temperature/moisture sensors and a micrometeorological station. Sensors are scanned every minute, and the 30 minute average is reported. The file snodgrass_soil_ESS.csv contains raw data, a row of column descriptors, and units of measurements. some data processing and QA/QC was done to filter out data from sensors that went bad and extreme outliers. CO2 sensors that went bad were replaced with new sensors as soon as possible. This research was performed to investigate the ecohydrological linkages of belowground carbon processes in the East River watershed forested communities to better understand how these ecosystems will respond to a changing cold-season moisture input.This is the second version of this data set and was modified on 10/01/2024. The primary change in the data was the addition of data from the fall of 2022 to June of 2024. In addition, minor QA/QC was done to filter out data from sensors that went bad and extreme outliers. THe filtered data are now NA's in this data frame and primarily the CO2 sensors. Limited to no QA/QC has been done on the other environmental data. One other change, is that this data, and the previous data is collected on Mountain Standard time whereas the previous publication of the data had the timezone incorrect.
Date made available2024
PublisherEnvironmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Ecohydrological controls on root and microbial respiration in the East River watershed of Colorado
Geographical coverageThese data were collected at 4 sites along the Snodgrass Mountain trail in the East River Watershed of Colorado USA (https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/colorado/snodgrass-mountain-trail). The trail begins near Gothic Road in meadow conditions and then cl

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