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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_909880</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>Daily summary of weather, snow, and preferential-flow conditions at the Snow and Ice Research Center, Nagaoka (Japan) - snow seasons 2006 through 2018</Entry_Title>
<Data_Set_Citation>
<Dataset_Creator>Yamaguchi, Satoru; Hiroyuki, Hirashima; Avanzi, Francesco</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Daily summary of weather, snow, and preferential-flow conditions at the Snow and Ice Research Center, Nagaoka (Japan) - snow seasons 2006 through 2018</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2019-12-11</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Other_Citation_Details>Supplement to: Avanzi, Francesco; Johnson, Ryan Curtis; Oroza, Carlos A; Hirashima, Hiroyuki; Maurer, Tessa; Yamaguchi, Satoru (2019): Insights into preferential-flow snowpack runoff using Random Forest. Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024828</Other_Citation_Details>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909880</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
<Personnel>
<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Satoru</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Yamaguchi</Last_Name>
</Personnel>
<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
</Discipline>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>DATE/TIME</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Temperature, air</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Long-wave downward radiation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Snow water equivalent</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Snow thickness</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Precipitation, daily total</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Density, snow</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Temperature, ice/snow</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Precipitation, rain</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Precipitation, snow</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Day of water year</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Snowfall days</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Sensible heat</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Latent heat</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Short-wave net radiation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Long-wave net radiation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Melt rate in water equivalent per day</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Number of melt events</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Liquid water content</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Snow grain size, mean</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Snow grain size, difference</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Density, snow, difference</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Density over grain size, difference</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Number of layers</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Layer thickness</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Runoff</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Runoff, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Coefficient of variation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Runoff, maximum deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Runoff</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>Japan</Keyword>
<Keyword>lysimeters</Keyword>
<Keyword>machine learning</Keyword>
<Keyword>Monitoring station</Keyword>
<Keyword>Nagaoka_SIRC</Keyword>
<Keyword>Preferential flow</Keyword>
<Keyword>random forest</Keyword>
<Keyword>snow</Keyword>
<Keyword>Snow and Ice Research Center</Keyword>
<Keyword>SNOWPACK</Keyword>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2006-01-05</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2018-03-19</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>37.41667</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>37.41667</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>138.88333</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>138.88333</Easternmost_Longitude>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
</Data_Center_Name>
<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
</Contact_Address>
</Personnel>
</Data_Center>
<Distribution>
<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>28941 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
</Distribution>
<Summary>This dataset includes daily summaries of weather, snow, and preferential-flow conditions at the Snow and Ice Research Center, Nagaoka (Japan) -- snow seasons 2006 through 2018.

The summary comprises 29 candidate predictors (features) of preferential flow as estimated by a weather-snow station, manual snow pits, and a snow model (SNOWPACK) and four metrics of preferential-flow characteristics measured by a multi-compartment lysimeter made by nine 1-m2 cells (standard deviation of mean snowpack runoff, coefficient of variation of mean snowpack runoff, maximum deviation of mean snowpack runoff, and mean snowpack runoff).

This dataset was produced during the preparation of the paper ''Insights into preferential-flow snowpack runoff using Random Forest'' (WRR, doi:10.1029/2019WR024828).

More details about this dataset can be found in the above mentioned paper. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909880"!</Summary>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Ice-floe_params_hg.png</URL>
<Description>Snow thickness</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</URL>
<Description>DATE/TIME</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024828</URL>
<Description>Insights into preferential-flow snowpack runoff using Random Forest</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Metadata_Name>DIF</Metadata_Name>
<Metadata_Version>9.4</Metadata_Version>
<DIF_Creation_Date>2019-12-11</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-04-30</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
</DIF>
