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Copy (2) Southwest Watershed Research Center Online Data Access

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:09 authored by USDA Agricultural Research Service

Hydrologic data, primarily precipitation and runoff, have been collected on experimental watersheds operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and on other lands in southeastern Arizona since the 1950s. These data are of national and international importance and make up one of the most comprehensive semiarid watershed data sets in the world. The USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center has recently developed an electronic data processing system that includes an online interface (https://tucson.ars.ag.gov/dap) to provide public access to the data. The goal of the system is to promote analyses and interpretations of historic and current data by improving data access. The publicly accessible part of the system consists of an interactive Web site, which provides an interface to the data, and a relational database, which is used to process, store, and manage data. In addition, DAP was expanded to put sediment, meteorological, soil moisture and temperature, vegetation, CO2 and water flux, geographic information system (GIS) and aircraft and satellite spectral imagery data on line and to publish metadata for all WGEW long-term measurements.


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Funding

Agricultural Research Service

History

Data contact name

Wong, Jason

Data contact email

jason.wong@ars.usda.gov

Publisher

Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic location - description

Southeastern Arizona, Pima County, Cochise County, Santa Cruz County, San Pedro River Basin

ISO Topic Category

  • environment
  • inlandWaters

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

hydrologic data; runoff; watersheds; Agricultural Research Service; Arizona; data collection; information processing; databases; sediments; soil water; temperature; vegetation; carbon dioxide; geographic information systems; aircraft; remote sensing; satellites; metadata

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:040 - National Research

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

USDA Agricultural Research Service (2018). Copy (2) Southwest Watershed Research Center Online Data Access. Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture.