Soil moisture data from St. Denis National Wildlife Area

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Overview Research Site Status and Provenance Access and Downloads

Section 1: Overview

Name of Research Project

Related Project	Part
GWF-HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils

Program Affiliations

No entries

Related Research Project(s)

Related Project	Part
GWF-HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils

Dataset Title

Soil moisture data from St. Denis National Wildlife Area

Additional Information

GeoNetwork record: www.gwfnet.net/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/33761917-dfea-476e-8f73-a404858e99be

Creators and Contributors

Name	Role	Email	Institution
Rosa Brannen	Point of Contact	rosa.brannen@usask.ca	University of Saskatchewan
Andrew Ireson	Principal Investigator		University of Saskatchewan

Abstract

Soil monitoring profiles were installed in 2013. Hourly measurements of soil moisture, matric potential, temperature, and conductivity are made at multiple depths in four profiles. Details are available in Bam et al., 2019 (Earth Systems Science Data, 11, 553-563).

Purpose

This dataset supports the Global Water Futures project Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils, which aims to improve understanding of soil freeze-thaw processes and methods of interpreting soil moisture data from instrumentation in frozen soils.

Plain Language Summary

Keywords

Keyword
soil moisture
soil temperature
soil electric conductivity
matric potential
Canadian Prairies

Citations

Bam, E. , Brannen, R. , Budhathoki, S. , Ireson, A. , Spence, C. , Van der Kamp, G. (2018). Atmospheric, soil, surface and groundwater data from the St Denis National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada [Dataset]. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0115

Bam, E. K. P., Brannen, R., Budhathoki, S., Ireson, A. M., Spence, C., van der Kamp, G. (2019). Meteorological, soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater data from the St. Denis National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 11: 553-563. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-553-2019

Description of Specific Location	Latitude	Longitude
St. Denis National Wildlife Area	52.2084	-106.0926

Section 3: Status and Provenance

Dataset Version

Dataset Creation Date

2018-10-16

Status of data collection/production

○ Planned

◉ In Progress

○ Abandoned

○ Complete

Dataset Completion or Abandonment Date

2018-10-16

Data Update Frequency

○ Continually

○ Daily

○ Weekly

○ Biweekly

○ Monthly

○ Anually

◉ As needed

○ Irregular

○ None planned

○ Unknown

Creation Software

Software	Version	File Formats

Primary Source of Data

◻ Unknown/Unspecified

◻ Census

◻ Field collected samples

◻ Field experiment

▣ Field observation

◻ Field survey

◻ Human biological samples

◻ Lab experiment

◻ Model simulation

◻ Previously collected

◻ Qualitative (from observations or interviews)

◻ Social survey

◻ Traditional knowledge

◻ Other Source of Data (Please specify in field below)

Other Source of Data (if applicable)

Data Lineage (if applicable). Please include versions (e.g., input and forcing data, models, and coupling modules; instrument measurements; surveys; sample collections; etc.)

Section 4: Access and Downloads

Access to the Dataset

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Does the data have access restrictions?

▣ No restriction (data is currently open to public)

◻ Limited (data is currently under embargo until publication)

◻ Limited (data involves intellectual property issues related to local or traditional knowledge)

◻ Limited (release of data may cause harm to the environment or to the public)

◻ Limited (pre-existing data has been used and is subject to access restrictions)

◻ Limited (data involves human subjects)

◻ Limited (data is supported by industry partnerships)

◻ Limited (data is supported by government partnerships)

Downloading and Characteristics of the Dataset

Download Links and Instructions

Data from July 28, 2013 to September 6, 2018 available here: https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0115

Total Size of all Dataset Files (GB)

0.046

File formats and online databases

◻ Link to online database or web services (e.g., WISKI, ECCC)

◻ Archive files (.zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .tgz, .tar.gz, etc.)

▣ CSV files (.csv - comma or tab separated value files)

◻ Excel document files (.xlsx, .xls)

◻ Image files (e.g., .tiff, .jpeg, .png, .gif, etc.)

◻ NetCDF files (.netcdf, .nc)

◻ Text files (.txt)

◻ Word document files (.docx, .doc)

◻ Other (Please specify in field below)

Other Data Formats (if applicable)

List of Parameters and Variables

Parameter/Variable	Unit	Frequency	Source
temperature	C	hourly	Hydraprobe (Stevens Water Monitoring Systems Inc.)
electrical conductivity	?S/cm	hourly	Hydraprobe (Stevens Water Monitoring Systems Inc.)
volumetric water content	m3/m3	hourly	Hydraprobe (Stevens Water Monitoring Systems Inc.)
matric potential	m	hourly	229 Heat Dissipation Matric Potential Sensor (Campbell Scientific) T4e tensiometers (Decagon Devices)

West Boundary Longitude
East Boundary Longitude
North Boundary Latitude
South Boundary Latitude

Begin Date	End Date
2013-07-28