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Soil Pit Sensor Data, Volumetric Water Content and Temperature, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Cape Tribulation, 2009
- Citation
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Liddell, M; Nelson, P (): Soil Pit Sensor Data, Volumetric Water Content and Temperature, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Cape Tribulation, 2009. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. http://supersites.tern.org.au/knb/metacat/supersite.434.6/html
- Identifier
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- docid
- supersite.434.6
- Data Creators
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- Individual
- Assoc Prof Michael Liddell
- Organization
- James Cook University
- Individual
- Assoc Prof Paul Nelson
- Organization
- James Cook University
- Abstract
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A soil pit was dug to 1.5 m depth in July 2007 and monitoring probes were installed at 0.1, 0.75 and 1.5 m depths in three columns. At each depth there were 3 time domain reflectometry probes (Campbell Scientific CS616) to measure volumetric water content, 3 gypsum blocks (Measurement Engineering Australia GBHeavy, except at 0.1 m depth were there were only 2) to measure water potential over the range -30 to -600 kPa. In addition one TCAV thermocouple probe to record soil temperature was located in the centre of the soil pit at 0.10m. In each column the time domain reflectometry and gypsum blocks were separated laterally by 20cm, each column was separated from the next by 100cm. At each depth the time domain reflectometry and gypsum blocks were separated laterally by 1 m.
- Contacts for Questions on the Use and Interpretation of Data
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- Individual
- Assoc Prof Paul Nelson
- Organization
- James Cook University
- Address
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Cairns Campus
PO Box 6811
Cairns. QLD 4870
Australia
- Phone
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- voice
- 07 4232 1375
- Email Address
- paul.nelson@jcu.edu.au
- Project Information and Data Owners
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- Title
- Project 2.5ii.2: Climate change: scaling from trees to ecosystems (2007 – 2011); Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network : FNQ Rainforest SuperSite (2011 – 14)
- Personnel
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- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Individual
- Assoc Prof Michael Liddell
- Organization
- James Cook University
- Funding
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MTSRF, TERN NCRIS Investment, DEEDI
- Methods and Sampling Information
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- Methods
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Method Step 1
- Description
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Soil sensor installation
The soil sensors were installed in a backhoe pit (1.5 m deep)
Method Step 2- Description
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Installation of sensors
A soil pit was dug to 1.5 m depth in July 2007 and monitoring probes were installed at 0.1, 0.75 and 1.5 m depths in three columns. At each depth there were 3 time domain reflectometry probes (Campbell Scientific CS616) to measure volumetric water content, 3 gypsum blocks (Measurement Engineering Australia GBHeavy, except at 0.1 m depth were there were only 2) to measure water potential over the range -30 to -600 kPa. In addition one TCAV thermocouple probe to record soil temperature was located in the centre of the soil pit at 0.10m. In each column the time domain reflectometry and gypsum blocks were separated laterally by 20cm, each column was separated from the next by 100cm. At each depth the time domain reflectometry and gypsum blocks were separated laterally by 1 m. Sensors were installed in layers maintaining the vertical configuration of 3 columns. The pit was backfilled by hand, layer by layer, to the original bulk density. Sieved soil was packed around each probe to ensure good contact and a layer of rock-free soil of at least 3 cm around the sensors.
- Instrument
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- Data from the gypsum blocks was recorded by a Measurement Engineering Australia SDI-12 logger (MEA2043) and data from the time domain reflectometry and temperature probes was recorded by a Campbell Scientific CR1000 logger.
- Keywords and Subject Categories
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- soil pit
- soil monitoring probes
- volumetric water content
- soil temperature
- Daintree Rainforest Observatory
- DRO
- Cape Tribulation
- FNQR
- Far North Queensland
- FNQ Rainforest
- anzsrc-for
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- 0503
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- Geographic Coverage
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- Geographic Description
- Cape Tribulation
- Bounding Coordinates
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- West
- 145.4469 degrees
- East
- 145.4469 degrees
- North
- -16.103 degrees
- South
- -16.103 degrees
- Temporal Coverage
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- Date
- 2009
- Intellectual Rights, Licence and Usage Conditions
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Data Table
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- Name
- asn_fnqr_capetrib_soilpit_2009.csv
- Description
- Soil Pit Sensor Data. Cape Tribulation, 2009
- Attribute Information
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Date
- Name
- Date
- Definition
- Date
- Measurement Type
- dateTime
- Measurement Domain
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- Format
- dd/mm/yyyy
- Precision
- 0
Time- Name
- Time
- Definition
- Time AEST
- Measurement Type
- dateTime
- Measurement Domain
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- Format
- hh:mm:ss
Soil Temp [DegC]- Name
- Soil Temp [DegC]
- Definition
- Soil temperature
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- celsius
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_1 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_1 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 1.50m column 1
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_2 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_2 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.75m column 1
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_3 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_3 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.10m column 1
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_4 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_4 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 1.50m column 2
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_5 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_5 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.75m column 2
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_6 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_6 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.10m column 2
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
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- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_7 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_7 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 1.50m column 3
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
-
- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_8 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_8 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.75m column 3
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
-
- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
SWS_9 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)- Name
- SWS_9 (cm3 H2O/cm3 soil)
- Definition
- Volumetric water content CS616 0.10m column 3
- Measurement Type
- ratio
- Measurement Domain
-
- Standard Unit
- cubicCentimetersPerCubicCentimeters
- Number Type
- natural
NOTES- Name
- NOTES
- Definition
- Notes
- Measurement Type
- nominal
- Measurement Domain
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- Text Domain
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- Definition
- Additional Info
- Number Of Records
- 7223
- Physical Structure Description
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- Object Name
- asn_fnqr_capetrib_soilpit_2009.csv
- Size
- 598802 byte
- Text Format
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- Number of Header Lines
- 1
- Record Delimiter
- #x0A
- Attribute Orientation
- column
- Simple Delimited
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- Field Delimiter
- ,
- Distribution
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Online
- URL
- supersite.435.2
- Access
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- Access Control
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- Auth System
- knb
- Order
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- Allow:
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- Auth System
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