Observation of water and heat flux in alpine meadow ecosystem — automatic weather station of Dashalong station (2015-2017)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

The data set contains the meteorological element observation data of the upper reaches of the heihe hydrological meteorological observation network of daxun station on January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017.The site is located in the western side of qilian county, qinghai province.The longitude and latitude of the observation point are 98.9406°E, 38.8399°N and 3739m above sea level.The air temperature and relative humidity sensor is set up at 5m, facing due north.The barometer is installed in the anti-skid box on the ground;The tipping bucket rain gauge is installed at 10m;The wind speed and direction sensor is mounted at 10m, facing due north;The four-component radiometer is installed at 6m, facing due south;Two infrared thermometers are installed at 6m, facing south, with the probe facing vertically downward;The soil temperature probe is buried at the surface of 0cm and underground of 4cm, 10cm, 20cm, 40cm, 80cm, 120cm and 160cm, 2m south of the meteorological tower.The soil moisture probe is buried underground at 4cm, 10cm, 20cm, 40cm, 80cm, 120cm and 160cm, 2m south of the meteorological tower.The soil heat flow plate (3 pieces) is buried in the underground 6cm successively and is 2m south of the meteorological tower.

Observation projects are: air temperature and humidity (Ta_5m, RH_5m) (unit: c, percentage), pressure (Press) (unit: hundred mpa), precipitation (Rain) (unit: mm), wind speed (WS_10m) (unit: m/s), wind (WD_10m) (unit: degrees), the radiation of four component (DR, UR, DLR_Cor, ULR_Cor, Rn) (unit: watts per square meter), the surface radiation temperature (IRT_1, IRT_2) (unit:C), soil heat flux (Gs_1, Gs_2, Gs_3) (unit: wattage/m2), soil temperature (Ts_0cm, Ts_4cm, Ts_10cm, Ts_20cm, Ts_40cm, Ts_80cm, Ts_120cm, Ts_160cm) (unit: water content by volume, percentage).

Processing and quality control of observation data :(1) 144 data per day (every 10min) should be ensured.(2) eliminate the moments with duplicate records;(3) data that obviously exceeds the physical significance or the range of the instrument is deleted;(4) the part marked with red letters in the data is questionable data;(5) the format of date and time is uniform, and the date and time are in the same column.For example, the time is: 2015-9-10 10:30;(6) naming rules: AWS+ site name.

For information of hydrometeorological network or site, please refer to Li et al. (2013), and for data processing, please refer to Liu et al. (2011).

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automatic_weather_station_Dashalong2015
automatic_weather_station_Dashalong2016
automatic_weather_station_Dashalong2017

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Che, T., Liu, S., Li, X., Xu, Z., Zhang, Y., Tan, J. (2019). Observation of water and heat flux in alpine meadow ecosystem — automatic weather station of Dashalong station (2015-2017). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Geogra.tpdc.270401. CSTR: 18406.11.Geogra.tpdc.270401. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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