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Daily automated weather station (AWS) data from Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest 1999-2015
https://doi.org/10.5285/7f2a4935-a9e8-47dc-b126-93d9e19496bd
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Reinsch, S.; Sowerby, A.; Emmett, B.A. (2015). Daily automated weather station (AWS) data from Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest 1999-2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7f2a4935-a9e8-47dc-b126-93d9e19496bd
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This dataset contains daily automated weather station (AWS) data from the Climoor field site in Clocaenog forest, North East Wales. The data are air temperature (mean, minimum and maximum), rainfall, net radiation, solar radiation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), wind speed and direction. The dataset has been quality checked, and incorrect or missing values removed, data has not been infilled. Data runs from 12/6/1999 until 30/06/2015, no data was collected March 2006 and June 2008. Air temperature, rainfall and wind speed and direction were recorded since June 1999. Measurements of relative humidity, air pressure, net and solar radiation and PAR started in June 2008. Since June 2008, data are recorded in minute intervals, averaged to hourly, then to daily means that are reported here. The Climoor field experiment intends to answer questions regarding the effects of warming and drought on ecosystem processes. The reported data are collected to monitor site specific environmental conditions and their development with time. These data are important to interpret results that are collected from the climate change manipulations imposed in the field.
Publication date: 2015-12-18
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
1999-06-12 to 2013-12-31
Provenance & quality
Prior to 2008, daily data was recorded on loggers at the field site, and manually downloaded into the project files on the CEH Bangor server by project staff. After 2008, hourly data was transferred from loggers at the field site onto CEH Bangor's server via a remote telemetry system. Each morning, the previous days data was transferred via telemetry. An automated script transferred the data into the project shared area of the shared network drive. Data quality checking was done on a regular basis by an experienced member of the team who has worked at the field site and on data from the Clocaenog site for 14 years. Data was visually inspected using basic graphing tools, and erroneous values were removed, taking into account the weather at the site during the period in question. Data processing steps included using a macro to combine data from individual 24 hour periods into larger timed periods (post-2008), then data was cut/pasted into raw data files. Data here is collated raw data, and has only had erroneous values removed followed by basic average or summing (in the case of rainfall) calculations being carried out. The following measures were taken with sensors from Campbell Scientific: relative humidity and air temperature are recorded with an HMP45C sensor. Rainfall sums are measured with an ARG100 Tipping bucket, air pressure is measured with a CS100 Barometer and net radiation is measured with an NR-Lites sensor. Further, Solar radiation and PAR are measured using a Skye SP1110 pyranometer and a SKP215 quantum sensor from Skye Instruments. Wind direction and speed are recorded using a windsonic 2D Ultrasonic Anemometer from Windsonic.
Licensing and constraints
This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Reinsch, S.; Sowerby, A.; Emmett, B.A. (2015). Daily automated weather station (AWS) data from Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest 1999-2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7f2a4935-a9e8-47dc-b126-93d9e19496bd
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Daily automated weather station (AWS) data from Climoor field site in Clocaenog Forest
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Authors
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-0677
Sowerby, A.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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