Semiarid grasslands and extreme precipitation events: Do experimental results scale to the landscape?

This dataset contains growing season precipitation data collected from an extensive rain gauge network with thirty catch cans distributed on the USDA-Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) in Nunn, Colorado from 1982-2013. The CPER is a site in the USDA Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network. These data provide records of long-term observations, which can be applied to assess responses to naturally occurring deluges across the 62.7 km2 CPER in NE Colorado, a SGS ecosystem with significant spatial variation in precipitation received during the growing season, soils and grazing management, and where several small-scale deluge experiments have been conducted.

• Resource Title: Raw Precipitation Data .

  File Name: PrecipitationData_1982_2013_Raw.csv

  Resource Description: Raw Precipitation Data from thirty catch can gauges on the Central Plains Experimental Range




• Resource Title: Processed precipitation data to identify deluges.

  File Name: PrecipitationData_Processed.csv

  Resource Description: Processed precipitation data to identify deluges on the Central Plain Experimental Range




• Resource Title: Data Dictionary for raw and processed data.

  File Name: DataDictionary_PrecipitationData_Raw_Processed_CPER.csv

  Resource Description: Data dictionary for processed precipitation data to identify deluges and for raw precipitation data from thirty catch can gauges on the Central Plains Experimental Range.