Meteorological and soil measurements of the permanent basic weather station 12 - Rio Loa, Chile

This data link summarizes all meteorological and soil measurements of the permanent weather station "12- Rio Loa" in the Atacama desert in Chile. The measurement site is located in the central transect of the research regions at the Rio Loa Canyon. Recent data are available on the weather station website section (https://www.crc1211db.uni-koeln.de/wd/index.php). Additionaly, detailed information about the station configuration and mounted sensors is given at this website section. The data of this station is collected by a radio-based connection to station 13. In addition, data stored in the station is acquired on a regular time basis, as documented in the section stated above. Please contact the contributor for all further details. Yearly datasets are additionally stored in this CRC1211-DB.