CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site

Tuftedal, Matthew; Kyrouac, Jenni; Isenberger, Cassandra; Zoerner, Magdelyn; Keeler, Evan; O'Brien, Joseph; Couch, David; Rinke, Taylor; Collis, Scott; Theisen, Adam; Muradyan, Paytsar

doi:10.15485/3000128

Title: CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site

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The Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge (TBRG) dataset contains data from both the Nova-Lynx 12 inch TBRG and the Met One 8-inch TBRG. The dataset contains one minute measurements for precipitation accumulation measured in that timeframe from both instruments. Each TBRG was equipped with heaters for all-season measurements. These data are helpful for identifying periods of drought, potential flooding, and general input for water budgets. TBRGs can be used to validate optical rain gauge data and disdrometer data collected during the CROCUS project. Data were collected at the Argonne Testbed for Multiscale Observational Science (ATMOS), a 20-acre prairie site at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. The data is presented as daily NetCDF (.nc) files, each containing approximately 24 hours of observations. Files follow the naming convention of: the project (CROCUS), location (atmos), instrument name (tbrg), data level (raw, a1), and date (year, month, day). The NetCDF format can be accessed using common scientific software such as Python using xarray, netCDF4 or act-doe.

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Publication Date:: Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Research Org.:: Community Research on Climate and Urban Science Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (CROCUS UIFL)

Sponsoring Org.:: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Subject:: 1-min Precipitation Accumulation; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT; PRECIPITATION ACCUMULATION

OSTI Identifier:: 3000128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15485/3000128

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                    Tuftedal, Matthew, Kyrouac, Jenni, Isenberger, Cassandra, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Keeler, Evan, O'Brien, Joseph, Couch, David, Rinke, Taylor, Collis, Scott, Theisen, Adam, and Muradyan, Paytsar. CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site.  United States: N. p., 2025. 
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                    Tuftedal, Matthew, Kyrouac, Jenni, Isenberger, Cassandra, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Keeler, Evan, O'Brien, Joseph, Couch, David, Rinke, Taylor, Collis, Scott, Theisen, Adam, & Muradyan, Paytsar. CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/3000128

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                    Tuftedal, Matthew, Kyrouac, Jenni, Isenberger, Cassandra, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Keeler, Evan, O'Brien, Joseph, Couch, David, Rinke, Taylor, Collis, Scott, Theisen, Adam, and Muradyan, Paytsar. 2025.  
"CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/3000128.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3000128. Pub date:Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025

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  title        = {CROCUS Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge Data at Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site},

  author       = {Tuftedal, Matthew and Kyrouac, Jenni and Isenberger, Cassandra and Zoerner, Magdelyn and Keeler, Evan and O'Brien, Joseph and Couch, David and Rinke, Taylor and Collis, Scott and Theisen, Adam and Muradyan, Paytsar},

  abstractNote = {The Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge (TBRG) dataset contains data from both the Nova-Lynx 12 inch TBRG and the Met One 8-inch TBRG. The dataset contains one minute measurements for precipitation accumulation measured in that timeframe from both instruments. Each TBRG was equipped with heaters for all-season measurements. These data are helpful for identifying periods of drought, potential flooding, and general input for water budgets. TBRGs can be used to validate optical rain gauge data and disdrometer data collected during the CROCUS project. Data were collected at the Argonne Testbed for Multiscale Observational Science (ATMOS), a 20-acre prairie site at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. The data is presented as daily NetCDF (.nc) files, each containing approximately 24 hours of observations. Files follow the naming convention of: the project (CROCUS), location (atmos), instrument name (tbrg), data level (raw, a1), and date (year, month, day). The NetCDF format can be accessed using common scientific software such as Python using xarray, netCDF4 or act-doe.},

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  year         = {Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025},

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