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US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2026 data, Walnut Gulch #1, Arizona

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:44 authored by Tony Tolsdorf, Michael Strobel, Deb Harms

This dataset contains air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, soil temperature, and soil moisture data from the Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2026, "Walnut Gulch #1," located in Cochise County, Arizona. The dataset links to a National Resources Conservation Service data request form, from which available data can be queried. The data collection site is at an elevation of 4500 feet; data has been continuously collected there since 1999-03-19.


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Funding

Agricultural Research Service

History

Data contact name

DeSimone, Dino

Data contact email

Dino.DeSimone@AZ.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

1999-03-19

Temporal Extent End Date

2017-12-20

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
  • environment
  • farming

Ag Data Commons Group

  • Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed
  • Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

data collection; air temperature; relative humidity; solar radiation; wind speed; soil temperature; soil water; climate; Arizona; feet; climate models; soil classification; drought; resource management; 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

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:040 - National Research

ARS National Program Number

  • 211

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Tolsdorf, Tony; Strobel, Michael; Harms, Deb (2021). US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2026 data, Walnut Gulch #1, Arizona. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.