Meteorological data, soil temperature and soil water content for Forst Conventional from 2016 to 2017

The data set was provided by the responsible parties of the SIGNAL sub project “Evaporation and transpiration of agroforestry”. The objective of the sub project was to investigate the effect of agroforestry on evapotranspiration on a whole system scale. We applied the so called surface energy balance method to calculate half hourly evapotranspiration rates. Half hourly evapotranspiration rates were calculated as a residual of the net radiation, the sensible heat flux and the ground heat flux. Besides the latter energy balance components, also standard meteorological data, such as global radiation, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and -direction and precipitation were continuously measured since April 2016. All instruments were installed at a 3.5 m tall weather mast and the data were automatically collected. The weather mast was installed at the reference plot of Forst (Lusatia). That plot is treated as conventional agriculture, in this case crop land. The collected data at the reference plot were used to compare the evapotranspiration rates and microclimate data of the nearby agroforestry plot (in about 500 m distance). The current data set contains standard meteorological data, soil temperature and -water content as 30 minute averages.