Metadata Catalogue
Soil Climate and Atmospheric Data at Scott Base, Marble Point, Mount Fleming, Bull Pass, Granite Harbour, Minna Bluff, Victoria Valley, Don Juan Pond and Bull Pass East, Antarctica
There are nine soil climate stations located in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica that were established starting in 1999 through 2011. Four of the stations are in the Dry Valleys and four are located along the coast. The ninth station is located on Mt. Fleming near the polar plateau. Each climate station measures atmospheric parameters (air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation) and soil parameters (soil moisture and temperature) that extend from the active layer (seasonally thawed layer) into the permafrost. Recorded measurements are made on an hourly basis. At each climate station the soils have been sampled and characterized at the Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory.
There are two borehole stations at Bull Pass and Marble Point which measure ground temperature and are used to study permafrost temperatures and active-layer thermal regimes to a depth of 30m (see associated resource).
Further station and borehole details including the instruments' specification, maintenance, and measured variables are described in each site's data "_description" folder.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-08-10T16:56:18
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-08-10T16:56:18
- Presentation form
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact - Custodian, Owner, etc
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Role Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Publisher United States Department of Agriculture
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1999-04-01T00:00:00
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Date
- 2023-08-10T16:56:24
- Date type
- Last Update
- GCMD Earth Science and Earth Science Services Keywords
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- SOLAR RADIATION
- ACTIVE LAYER
- SOIL TEMPERATURE
- AIR TEMPERATURE
- HUMIDITY
- SURFACE WINDS
- WATER VAPOR
- SOIL MOISTURE
- GCMD Platform/Sources Keywords
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- WEATHER STATIONS
- GCMD Instrument/Sensors Keywords
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- SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
- AWS
- SOIL MOISTURE PROBE
- GCMD Locations Keywords
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- ANTARCTICA
- ROSS ISLAND
- Theme
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- SCOTT BASE
- MARBLE POINT
- MOUNT FLEMMING
- BULL PASS
- GRANITE HARBOUR
- MINNA BLUFF
- VICTORIA VALLEY
- DON JUAN POND
- BULL PASS
- MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS
- INSTALLATION
- K123A
- Resource constraints
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Legal constraints Access constraints Use constraints Constraint application scope This data set conforms to the CC BY-NC Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License License Dataset
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- Metadata constraints
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Legal constraints Access constraints Use constraints Constraint application scope This data set conforms to the CC BY-NC Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License License Metadata
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/6bc04f66-3e79-4591-9030-0016fe8dbd27
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- anyValidURI
- Metadata Contact
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Role Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Point of contact Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research MorganF@landcareresearch.co.nz
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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Name Linkage (URL) Protocol Function Description https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/soil-climate-research-stations Complete Metadata
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-07-16T05:47:17.577Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-08-10T04:55:13
Metadata standard
- Format name
- ISO 19115-1
- Edition
- 2018
