SMEX02 SMACEX Tower Meteorological/Flux Data: Iowa  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0438
Summary
Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited.
This data set contains meteorological and flux data collected from 16 June 2002 through 09 July 2002 within the Walnut Creek watershed in central Iowa, USA. The data set includes eddy covariance and ancillary data measured from a variety of sensors mounted on meteorological towers in agricultural fields. The study was part of the Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02) and the Soil Moisture Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (SMACEX), run by Canada's National Research Council (NRC). Parameters for this data set include net radiation, air and soil temperature, a variety of flux parameters, mean wind speed/direction, friction velocity, vapor pressure, and other meteorological parameters. Data are provided in tab-delimited ASCII text files and are available via FTP.
These data were collected as part of a validation study for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 04 May 2002. AMSR-E validation studies linked to SMEX are designed to evaluate the accuracy of AMSR-E soil moisture data. Specific validation objectives include assessing and refining soil moisture algorithm performance; verifying soil moisture estimation accuracy; investigating the effects of vegetation, surface temperature, topography, and soil texture on soil moisture accuracy; and determining the regions that are useful for AMSR-E soil moisture measurements.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 41.9929°
S: 41.9328°
E: -93.5285°
W: -93.7549°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Prueger, J., J. Hatfield, J. Albertson, T. Cahill, D. Cooper, B. Eichinger, L. Hipps, B. Kustas, and J. Norman
Dataset Title: SMEX02 SMACEX Tower Meteorological/Flux Data: Iowa
Dataset Release Date: 2009-12-14
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0438.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2002-06-16
Stop Date: 2002-07-09
Data Resolution
Temporal Resolution: 24:00:00
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IOWA
Science Keywords
- Agriculture Soils Soil Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure Atmospheric Pressure Measurements
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Radiation Heat Flux
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Radiation Longwave Radiation
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Radiation Net Radiation
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Radiation Radiative Flux
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Radiation Shortwave Radiation
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Winds Surface Winds
Ancillary Keywords
- AMSR-E
- Atmosphere
- Atmospheric CO2
- Atmospheric Temperature
- Atmospheric Water Vapor
- CO2 Flux
- Flux
- Ground Heat Flux
- Heat Flux
- Latent Heat Flux
- Meteorology
- NASA
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Near-surface Wind Speeds
- NSIDC
- NSIDC DAAC
- SMEX
- Soil Moisture
- Soil Moisture Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (SMACEX)
- Surface Soil Moisture
- Wind Direction
- Wind Speed
- Wind Velocity
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instrument
- ANEMOMETERS
- CO2 ANALYZERS
- EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES
- HUMIDITY SENSORS
- RADIOMETERS
- SOIL HEAT FLUX TRANSDUCER
- SONIC ANEMOMETER
- THERMOCOUPLES
Project
- SMEX02 Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 67 - 408 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
John Prueger
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- USDA
- ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory
- ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory
- USDA
- 2150 PAMMEL DR
City: Ames
Province or State: IA
Postal Code: 50011-3120
Country: USA
William Eichinger
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Iowa
- IIHR Hydroscience
- IIHR Hydroscience
- University of Iowa
City: Iowa City
Province or State: IA
Postal Code: 52242
Country: usa
William Kustas
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Agricultural Research Service
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Agricultural Research Service
- Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
City: Beltsville
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20705-0000
Country: USA
John Norman
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
John Albertson
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
Tony Cahill
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
Dan Cooper
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Larry Hipps
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
Jerry Hatfield
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL)
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
AMSR-E/Aqua Data
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
AMSR-E Validation Data
Reference
Refer to the USDA SMEX02 Web site (http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=8993) for in-depth information on the science mission and goal of the SMEX project.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2009-12-14
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-12-17
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