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US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2021 data - Mandan #1, North Dakota

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:43 authored by Tony Tolsdorf, Michael Strobel, Deb Harms

This data set measures air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, soil temperature, and soil moisture from the Mandan #1 SCAN site in Morton County, North Dakota.


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Funding

U.S. Department of Agriculture

History

Data contact name

Tolsdorf, Tony

Data contact email

Tony.Tolsdorf@POR.usda.gov

Publisher

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Intended use

Soil water status and soil temperature are critical parameters for many applications, including continental-scale climate models, soil classification, and drought assessment. National resource management issues for which long-term soil / climate information is needed include To monitor drought development and trigger plans and policies for mitigation, Investigate climate change scenarios, To predict the long-term sustainability of cropping systems, and watershed health, To monitor and predict changes in crop, range, and woodland productivity in relation to soil moisture-temperature changes, To predict regional shifts in irrigation water requirements which may affect reservoir construction and ground-water levels, To predict shifts in wetlands, To develop new soil moisture accounting and risk assessments, To predict changes in runoff that affect flooding and flood control structures, To verify and ground-truth satellite and soil moisture model information, To predict and mitigate pest and disease outbreaks, For soil classification, For energy conservation, For Input to global circulation models

Temporal Extent Start Date

1994-10-01

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • environment
  • farming

Ag Data Commons Group

  • Northern Plains
  • Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

data collection; air temperature; relative humidity; solar radiation; wind speed; soil temperature; soil water; North Dakota; climate models; soil classification; drought; resource management; climate; issues and policy; climate change; cropping systems; watersheds; woodlands; irrigation water; water table; wetlands; risk assessment; runoff; flood control; satellites; models; pests; disease outbreaks; energy conservation

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Tolsdorf, Tony; Strobel, Michael; Harms, Deb (2020). US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2021 data - Mandan #1, North Dakota. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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