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Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to collect and distribute ground-truth soil water content and meteorological data in the Houston, TX, area, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and the 2022 field campaign for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The files herein contain soil water content and meteorological data for three stations that the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin installed in the Houston, TX, area during the period of performance. The data includes soil moisture, volumetric water content, electrical conductivity of soil, soil temperature, rain precipitation, air temperature and other parameters. Data files within this data set contain measurements at both sub-hourly and 1-hour resolution measurements. The sub-hourly meteorological data file names end with “TRACER_SubHourly_met.dat”, and the sub-hourly soil data files end with “TRACER_SubHourly_soil.dat”. For the 1-hour resolution data, the files ending with "_Soil_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly volumetric soil water content and temperature measured at 5, 10, 20 and 50 cm depths. The files ending with “_Meteoro_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly measured precipitation, air temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation. All data have undergone QA/QC procedures that are described by Caldwell et al. (2019) and Dorigo etmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Research Org.:
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Collaborations:
- PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL
- Subject:
- Air temperature; Electrical conductivity of soil; Precipitation; Soil Moisture and Meteorological Station; Soil temperature; Volumetric water content; Wind Direction; Wind speed
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2572574
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5439/2572574
Citation Formats
Young, Michael. Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX). United States: N. p., 2025.
Web. doi:10.5439/2572574.
Young, Michael. Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX). United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/2572574
Young, Michael. 2025.
"Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX)". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/2572574. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2572574. Pub date:Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2025
@article{osti_2572574,
title = {Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX)},
author = {Young, Michael},
abstractNote = {The purpose of this study was to collect and distribute ground-truth soil water content and meteorological data in the Houston, TX, area, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and the 2022 field campaign for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The files herein contain soil water content and meteorological data for three stations that the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin installed in the Houston, TX, area during the period of performance. The data includes soil moisture, volumetric water content, electrical conductivity of soil, soil temperature, rain precipitation, air temperature and other parameters. Data files within this data set contain measurements at both sub-hourly and 1-hour resolution measurements. The sub-hourly meteorological data file names end with “TRACER_SubHourly_met.dat”, and the sub-hourly soil data files end with “TRACER_SubHourly_soil.dat”. For the 1-hour resolution data, the files ending with "_Soil_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly volumetric soil water content and temperature measured at 5, 10, 20 and 50 cm depths. The files ending with “_Meteoro_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly measured precipitation, air temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation. All data have undergone QA/QC procedures that are described by Caldwell et al. (2019) and Dorigo et al. (2013) for the soil-specific data, and EPA (2008) for the meteorological data.},
doi = {10.5439/2572574},
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year = {Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2025},
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