Atmospheric Surface Flux Station #30 measurements (level 2 Processed), Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH), September 2021-July 2023
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Processed (Level 2) measurements and derived variables from the Atmospheric Surface Flux Station #30 (ASFS-30) deployed at the Kettle Ponds Annex site (38°56.3686' N, 106°58.1781' W) during the Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere, and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH) campaign near Gothic, Colorado, from September 2021 through July 2023. The ASFS measured variables of the surface energy budget, momentum flux, near-surface meteorology, and soil properties. Measurements of high-resolution 3-dimensional winds were observed at a nominal height of 4.6 m (depending on snow depth). Measurements of upwelling broadband radiation and meteorology observed from a nominal height of 2.9 m. The measurements are included in three netCDF files per day. The "sledmet" files are comprised of 1-min averages of measured and derived variables, including near-surface meteorology, surface skin temperature, snow depth, radiative fluxes, and conductive fluxes. The "sledseb" files are 10-min averages of the same variables as in the 1-min files and also include calculations of turbulent sensible and latent heat fluxes, momentum flux, and associated diagnostics, surface stress, and Monin-Obukhov parameters using both eddy covariance and bulk methodologies, all valid for the 10-min intervals. Both of these file types also contain a "_qc" variable paired with each measurement variable, or family of variables, that is a temporally-matched quality control code: 0 = good data, 1 = caution (data may be suspect), 2 = bad data, and -1 = missing (no data was collected). The "10hz" files include 3-dimensional winds and gas densities of water vapor and carbon dioxide that are quality-controlled, aggregated to a regular 10-Hz temporal grid, and (for winds) rotated into the earth coordinate frame. A detailed documentation of the measurement conditions, the processing steps taken to construct this data set, and other caveats and uncertainties will be provided in an accompanying published data manuscript. Note on update: v2_1 update provides double rotation ("dbl") turbulent fluxes in addition to planar fit ("pf"), as well as corrects a rotation problem with the v2 data that primarily affects the momentum fluxes. v2_1 only includes updates for the sledseb file set: for sledmet and sledwind10hz, continue to refer to v2 data set.
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