US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2027 data, Little River, Tift County, Georgia

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posted on 2023-11-30, 08:43 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 2027, "Little River," located in Tift County, Georgia. 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 350 feet; data has been continuously collected there since 1999-05-19.

Resources in this dataset:

Resource Title: GeoData catalog record.

File Name: Web Page, url: https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/LittleRiver_eaa_2015_February_24_032

Funding

U.S. Department of Agriculture

History

Data contact name

USDA/NRCS/NWCC > National Water and Climate Center, National Resources Conservation Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture

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

1999-05-19

Theme

Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
environment
farming

Ag Data Commons Group

Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain
Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

agricultural soils; climate; rivers; Georgia; air temperature; relative humidity; solar radiation; wind speed; soil temperature; soil water

Primary article PubAg Handle

https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/16968

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Public Access Level

Public

Preferred dataset citation

Tolsdorf, Tony; Strobel, Michael; Harms, Deb (2020). US Department of Agriculture Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) site 2027 data, Little River, Tift County, Georgia. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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