Soil water content measurements and rainfall data for plots with experimentally altered precipitation and nutrient inputs at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2011-ongoing

This dataset contains soil volumetric water content data collected
starting in 2011 for a long-term precipitation and nutrient
manipulation experiment at the Jornada Basin LTER site in southern
New Mexico, U.S.A. This experiment uses precipitation shelters and
irrigation treatments to manipulate water inputs, and fertilization
treatments to alter nitrogen input to 2.5 x 2.5 meter plots in a
desert grassland. Soil sensors are installed at surface and deep
soil layers in each plot and collect hourly averages of volumetric
water content using a time-domain reflectometry method. This dataset
contains daily averages. This is an ongoing study and the dataset
will be updated yearly.