Standard meteorology and ancillary data from the Tromble Weir experimental watershed tower at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2010-ongoing

This data package contains 30-minute standard meteorology and
ancillary data collected at an eddy covariance tower in the Tromble
Weir Watershed area of the Jornada Basin in southern New Mexico,
USA. These data are used to quantify the water and energy balances
in a small experimental watershed, including observational studies
to calculate groundwater recharge as a water balance residual, to
build relations between soil moisture state and ET flux, and to
quantify land-atmosphere interactions and improve our understanding
of the eddy covariance method. Additionally, they have been used in
modeling studies as a validation of model performance. This file
presents the ancillary data collected at the eddy covariance tower,
excluding the 20Hz flux measurements that are archived at AmeriFlux
(site US-Jo2; http://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-Jo2). This
includes soil moisture and temperature at 4 depths, air temperature
and pressure, humidity and vapor pressure, ground heat flux,
incoming and outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation,
photosynthetically active radiation for a subset of the study
period, and surface soil temperature. Instrument descriptions and
detailed procedures are found in the references listed in the
Methods section of this package. This is an ongoing dataset that
will be updated annually.