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tc-13-2203-2019

Name: Water track properties of a polar desert in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Published: 2023-05-10
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: land-air exchange; Permafrost; polar desert; soil hydrology; surface energy balance; water track

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land-air exchange; Permafrost; polar desert; soil hydrology; surface energy balance; water track

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Water track properties of a polar desert in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica - data text file

Coverage:

Latitude: -77.576530 * Longitude: 163.483584

Date/Time Start: 2012-12-26T21:15:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-01-21T13:15:00

Event(s):

Taylor_valley * Latitude: -77.637000 * Longitude: 162.842000 * Location: Transantarctic Mountains

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Date/time start	Date/time start		Thomas, Christoph K	Start time of averaging interval, center, formatted datetime string
2	Date/time end	Date/time end		Thomas, Christoph K	End time of averaging interval, center, formatted datetime string
3	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Center time of averaging interval, center, serial matlab format
4	Day of the year	DOY	day	Thomas, Christoph K	Doy of Year, fractional (decimal places = time)
5	Height	Height	m	Thomas, Christoph K	Aerodynamic height (z-d), where d=displacement height
6	ELEVATION	Elevation	m a.s.l.	Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Elevation
7	LATITUDE	Latitude		Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Latitude
8	LONGITUDE	Longitude		Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Longitude
9	UTC offset	UTC offset		Thomas, Christoph K	UTC offset
10	Solar zenith angle	SZA	deg	Thomas, Christoph K	Zenith angle of the sun
11	Solar azimuth angle	SAA	deg	Thomas, Christoph K	Azimuth angle of the sun
12	Day-Night indicator	Day/Night		Thomas, Christoph K	Day and night indicator: 0=night,0.5=transition (sunrise/ sunset), 1=day
13	Number of data	N data		Thomas, Christoph K	Number of data in averaging interval
14	Number of data	N data		Thomas, Christoph K	Number of flagged or missing data for sonic
15	Number of data	N data		Thomas, Christoph K	Number of flagged or missing data for irga1
16	Number	n	#	Thomas, Christoph K	Number of iterations for spectral frequency correction (Moore correction)
17	Wind speed, x component	ff x	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component x, sonic, unrotated, mean
18	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component x, sonic, unrotated, standard deviation
19	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component x, sonic, unrotated, skewness
20	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component x, sonic, unrotated, kurtosis
21	Wind speed, y component	ff y	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component y, sonic, unrotated, mean
22	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component y, sonic, unrotated, standard deviation
23	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component y, sonic, unrotated, skewness
24	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component y, sonic, unrotated, kurtosis
25	Wind speed, z component	ff z	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component z (vertical), sonic, unrotated, mean
26	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component z (vertical), sonic, unrotated, standard deviation
27	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component z (Vertical), sonic, unrotated, skewness
28	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component z (Vertical), sonic, unrotated, kurtosis
29	Wind direction	dd	deg	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind direction
30	1st rotation angle (horizontal)	1st rot angle	deg	Thomas, Christoph K	Coordinate rotation: 1st rotational angle to align coordinate system with mean wind
31	2nd rotation angle (vertical)	2nd rot angle	deg	Thomas, Christoph K	Coordinate rotation: 2ndt rotational angle to force mean vertical wind to zero
32	Wind speed, along-wind, rotated, mean	u mean rot	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, along-wind, rotated, mean
33	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
34	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, along-wind, rotated, standard deviation
35	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, along-wind, rotated, skewness
36	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, along-wind, rotated, kurtosis
37	Wind speed, cross-wind, rotated, mean	v mean rot	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, cross-wind, rotated, mean
38	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
39	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, cross-wind, rotated, standard deviation
40	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, cross-wind, rotated, skewness
41	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, cross-wind, rotated, kurtosis
42	Wind speed, vertical, rotated, mean	w mean rot	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, vertical, rotated, mean
43	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
44	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, vertical, rotated, standard deviation
45	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, vertical, rotated, skewness
46	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Wind component, vertical, rotated, kurtosis
47	Sonic temperature	Ts	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Sonic temperature, mean
48	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
49	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Sonic temperature, standard deviation
50	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Sonic temperature, skewness
51	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Sonic temperature, kurtosis
52	Carbon dioxide	CO2	mmol/m³	Thomas, Christoph K	CO2 concentration, mean
53	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
54	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	CO2 concentration, standard deviation
55	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	CO2 concentration, skewness
56	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	CO2 concentration, kurtosis
57	Water vapour	WV	mmol/m³	Thomas, Christoph K	Water vapor concentration, mean
58	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to standard deviation
59	Standard deviation	Std dev	±	Thomas, Christoph K	Water vapor concentration, standard deviation
60	Skewness	Skew		Thomas, Christoph K	Water vapor concentration, skewness
61	Kurtosis	Kurt		Thomas, Christoph K	Water vapor concentration, kurtosis
62	Pressure	P	kPa	Thomas, Christoph K	Reference pressure, barometric
63	Temperature, air	TTT	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Reference temperature
64	Density, air	Density air	kg/m³	Thomas, Christoph K	Density of dry air
65	Vapour saturation pressure	VSP	kPa	Thomas, Christoph K	Saturation vapor pressure
66	Vapour pressure	Vapour press	kPa	Thomas, Christoph K	Vapor pressure IRGA1
67	Density of moist air	Density moist air	kg/m³	Thomas, Christoph K	Density of moist air
68	Specific heat, air	Spec heat air	J/kg/K	Thomas, Christoph K	Specific heat at constant pressure computed for air density
69	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to covariance
70	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance u'w'
71	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to covariance
72	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance v'w'
73	Friction velocity	u*	m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Friction velocity = sqrt(overbar{u'w'}^2 + overbar{v'w'}^2)
74	Momentum, flux	Momentum flux	kg/m/s²	Thomas, Christoph K	momentum flux
75	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance u'Ts'
76	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance v'Ts'
77	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to covariance
78	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance w'Ts', kinematic buoyancy flux
79	Heat, flux coefficient	Heat flux coeff	J/m³/K	Thomas, Christoph K	Heat flux coefficient, standard conditions
80	Buoyancy, flux	Buoyancy flux	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Buoyancy flux, energetic
81	Heat, flux coefficient	Heat flux coeff	J/m³/K	Thomas, Christoph K	Heat flux coefficient computed for current air density
82	Buoyancy, flux	Buoyancy flux	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Buoyancy flux, energetic, computed for current air density
83	Heat, flux, sensible	Qh	K*m/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Sensible heat flux (Schotanus correction applied), kinematic
84	Heat, flux, sensible	Qh	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Sensible heat flux (Schotanus correction applied), energetic
85	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance u'CO2'
86	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance v'CO2'
87	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to covariance
88	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance w'CO2', vertical CO2 flux, FCO2, uncorrected
89	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance u'H2O'
90	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance v'H2O'
91	Spectral frequency correction factor	Spectral freq corr		Thomas, Christoph K	Spectral frequency correction factor applied to covariance
92	Covariance	Cov		Thomas, Christoph K	Covariance w'H2O', latent heat flux, LE, ET, uncorrected
93	Latent heat of vaporization	Latent heat of vaporization	J/kg	Thomas, Christoph K	Latent heat of vaporization
94	Heat, flux, latent	Qe	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Latent heat flux, energetic, uncorrected
95	Density correction	Density corr	mmol/m²/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Density correction for FCO2
96	Density correction	Density corr	mmol/m²/s	Thomas, Christoph K	Density correction for latent heat flux
97	Carbon dioxide, flux	CO2 flux	mmol/m²/s	Thomas, Christoph K	CO2 Flux, FCO2, corrected
98	Heat, flux, latent	Qe	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Latent heat flux, energetic, corrected
99	Obukhov length	Obukhov l	m	Thomas, Christoph K	Obukhov length computed using buoyancy flux w'Ts'
100	zeta	zeta	z/L	Thomas, Christoph K	z/L
101	Obukhov length	Obukhov l	m	Thomas, Christoph K	Obukhov length computed using sensible heat flux w'T'
102	zeta	zeta	z/L	Thomas, Christoph K	z/L_irga1
103	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, along-wind component, std(u)/u*
104	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, cross-wind component, std(v)/u*
105	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, vertical wind component, std(w)/u*
106	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, sonic temperature, std(Ts)/T, T=w'Ts'/u*
107	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, dry-bulb temperature, std(T)/T, T=w'T'/u*
108	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, carbon dioxide, std(CO2)/CO2, CO2=w'CO2'/u*
109	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic, water vapor, std(H2O)/H2O, H2O=w'H2O'/u*
110	Turbulence intensity	Turbulence int		Thomas, Christoph K	Turbulence intensity, along-wind component, std(u)/U, U=mean horizontal wind speed
111	Turbulence intensity	Turbulence int		Thomas, Christoph K	Turbulence intensity, cross-wind component, std(v)/U, U=mean horizontal wind speed
112	Turbulence intensity	Turbulence int		Thomas, Christoph K	Turbulence intensity, vertical wind component, std(w)/U, U=mean horizontal wind speed
113	Time lag	Time lag		Thomas, Christoph K	Used time lag for buoyancy flux
114	Time lag	Time lag		Thomas, Christoph K	Used time lag for FCO2
115	Time lag	Time lag		Thomas, Christoph K	Used time lag for latent heat flux
116	Coriolis parameter f	Coriolis		Thomas, Christoph K	Coriolis parameter f, dependent on latitude
117	Non-stationarity	Non-stationarity		Thomas, Christoph K	Non-stationarity of covariance of u'w' after Foken et al. (2004)
118	Non-stationarity	Non-stationarity		Thomas, Christoph K	Non-stationarity of covariance of v'w' after Foken et al. (2004)
119	Non-stationarity	Non-stationarity		Thomas, Christoph K	Non-stationarity of covariance of w'Ts' after Foken et al. (2004)
120	Non-stationarity	Non-stationarity		Thomas, Christoph K	Non-stationarity of covariance of w'co2' after Foken et al. (2004)
121	Non-stationarity	Non-stationarity		Thomas, Christoph K	Non-stationarity of covariance of w'h2o' after Foken et al. (2004)
122	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic of u, modeled with z/L after Foken et al. (2004)
123	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic of w, modeled with z/L after Foken et al. (2004)
124	Integral turbulence characteristic	Itc		Thomas, Christoph K	Integral turbulence characteristic of Ts, modeled with z/L after Foken et al. (2004)
125	Deviation	Deviation		Thomas, Christoph K	Deviation of itc_u from itc_u.model, indicating if measurements disagree with theory
126	Deviation	Deviation		Thomas, Christoph K	Deviation of itc_w from itc_w.model, indicating if measurements disagree with theory
127	Deviation	Deviation		Thomas, Christoph K	Deviation of itc_Ts from itc_Ts.model, indicating if measurements disagree with theory
128	Quality flag	QF		Thomas, Christoph K	Quality flag for covariance of u'w' after Foken et al. (2004), simplified: 1-3=0, 4-6=1, 7-9=2
129	Quality flag	QF		Thomas, Christoph K	Quality flag for covariance of w'Ts' after Foken et al. (2004), simplified: 1-3=0, 4-6=1, 7-9=2
130	Quality flag	QF		Thomas, Christoph K	Quality flag for covariance of w'co2' after Foken et al. (2004), simplified: 1-3=0, 4-6=1, 7-9=2
131	Quality flag	QF		Thomas, Christoph K	Quality flag for covariance of w'h2o' after Foken et al. (2004), simplified: 1-3=0, 4-6=1, 7-9=2
132	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class stream channel to flux footprint
133	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class water track to flux footprint
134	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class paleolake delta to flux footprint
135	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class glacial till to flux footprint
136	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class ice to flux footprint
137	Percentage	Perc	%	Linhardt, Tobias	Contribution of land use class undefined to flux footprint
138	Comment	Comment		Linhardt, Tobias	Logical parameter, indicating if LUC_water_track exceeds its median of 78.9 %
139	Battery terminal voltage	Vbat	V	Thomas, Christoph K	Battery Voltage
140	Temperature, technical	T tech	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Temperature of the logger shield
141	Temperature, air	TTT	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Air Temperature at 2 m, HMP
142	Vapour pressure	Vapour press	kPa	Thomas, Christoph K	Vapor pressure, HMP
143	Vapour saturation pressure	VSP	kPa	Thomas, Christoph K	Saturation vapor pressure, HMP
144	Humidity, relative	RH	%	Thomas, Christoph K	Relative humidity, HMP
145	Dew/frost point	TdTdTd	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Dewpoint temperature, HMP
146	Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation	SWD	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Downwelling shortwave radiation, NR01
147	Short-wave upward (REFLEX) radiation	SWU	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Upwelling shortwave radiation, NR01
148	Long-wave downward radiation	LWD	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Downwelling longwave radiation, NR01
149	Long-wave upward radiation	LWU	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Upwelling longwave radiation, NR01
150	Long-wave downward radiation	LWD	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Downwelling longwave radiation, corrected for device temperature, NR01
151	Long-wave upward radiation	LWU	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Upwelling longwave radiation, corrected for device temperature, NR01
152	Device temperature net radiometer	Device T	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	NR01 temperature
153	Device temperature net radiometer	Device T	K	Thomas, Christoph K	NR01 temperature
154	Short-wave net radiation	SW net	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Shortwave net radiation, NR01
155	Long-wave net radiation	LW net	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Longwave net radiation, NR01
156	Albedo, fraction	Alb frac		Thomas, Christoph K	Upwelling shortwave radiation / Downwelling shortwave radiation, NR01
157	Downward radiation, total	Dn tot	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Total downwelling radiation, NR01
158	Upward radiation, total	Up tot	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Total upwelling radiation, NR01
159	Net radiation	NET	W/m²	Thomas, Christoph K	Total net radiation, NR01
160	Indicator	Indicator		Thomas, Christoph K	Indicator for erroneous thermocouple measurements
161	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Soil temperature, thermocouple 1
162	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermocouple 1
163	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Thomas, Christoph K	Soil temperature, thermocouple 2
164	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Thomas, Christoph K	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermocouple 2
165	Number of measurements	n	#	Levy, Joseph S	Number of averaged raw thermistor measurements
166	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 1 on-track
167	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 1 on-track
168	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 2 on-track
169	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 2 on-track
170	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 3 on-track
171	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 3 on-track
172	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 4 on-track
173	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 4 on-track
174	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 1 off-track
175	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 1 off-track
176	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 2 off-track
177	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 2 off-track
178	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 3 off-track
179	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 3 off-track
180	Temperature, soil	T soil	°C	Levy, Joseph S	Soil temperature, thermistor 4 off-track
181	DEPTH, soil	Depth soil	m	Levy, Joseph S	Geocode – Depth in the soil, thermistor 4 off-track
182	Heat storage change	Heat storage change	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Heat storage change in the thawed layer, from logarithmic temperature interpolation
183	Net radiation	NET	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Total net radiation, corrected for outliers
184	Heat, flux, sensible	Qh	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Sensible heat flux, corrected for outliers
185	Heat, flux, latent	Qe	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Latent heat flux, corrected for outliers
186	Heat storage change	Heat storage change	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Heat storage change in the thawed layer, corrected for outliers
187	Soil heat, flux	Soil heat flux	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Soil heat flux at ice tabe depth (WT/NWT: 0.48 m/0.30 m), calculated as energy balance residual of variables 183-186
188	Ground heat, flux	Ground heat flux	W/m²	Linhardt, Tobias	Ground heat flux, calculated as energy balance residual of variables 183-185

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