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Climate Data

Climate Data. Scope of Core Data. Air temperature Precipitation Rain Snow Relative Humidity Barometric Pressure Solar Radiation Wind. Design and Status of Core Data. All variables collected at two primary climate stations – LTER1, LTER2, Wetlands (site to be added)

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Climate Data

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  1. Climate Data

  2. Scope of Core Data • Air temperature • Precipitation • Rain • Snow • Relative Humidity • Barometric Pressure • Solar Radiation • Wind

  3. Design and Status of Core Data • All variables collected at two primary climate stations – LTER1, LTER2, Wetlands (site to be added) • CPCRW – Variable array has a number of differences in the radiation measurements (e.g. no PAR) • Select variables collected at “A” reps of the BCEF • Air temperature • Summer precipitation (throughfall) • PAR

  4. Core Data AvailabilityQA/QC – Definition • Quality Assurance (QA) is defined as a procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a product (climate monitoring equipment) under development (before work is complete, as opposed to afterwards) meets specified requirements. • Quality control (QC) is a procedure or set of procedures intended to ensure that a manufactured product adheres to a defined set of quality criteria or meets the requirements of the client or customer.

  5. Core Data Availability • Data that has passed QA/QC procedures • LTER1 & LTER2 precipitation data • “A” site precipitation data – QC in progress • All other data sets have various states of QA • QC is not current on other data sets

  6. Core Data Availability

  7. Core Data Availability

  8. Core Data Availability

  9. Contributions to network wide data bases CLIMDB – Air temperature and precipitation datasets TRENDS - ??

  10. Core data analysis with respect to: • Climate variability • Successional gradients • Successional dynamics • Threshold behavior

  11. Core data analysis with respect to:Climate variability

  12. Future analysis of data – one example LTER2 - Floodplain weather station Joy Clein

  13. Recommendations • Add a QA/QC column in the list of datasets • Finish QA/QC on all climate datasets • Move the QA/QC line in the dataset descriptions to its own section after the Methodology section • Perform all necessary tasks to maintain the QA on all sensors • Sensor placement design dependent on new proposal direction – but this is a “LONG-TERM” experiment

  14. Other opportunities

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