Precision lysimeter data: Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station

The data in this repository support the manuscript \"Closing the water balance with a precision small-scale field lysimeter,\" currently being considered for publication at the journal Sensors. The Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station field site, located near Reno, NV, includes two constructed test beds and two lysimeters. One test bed and one lysimeter are filled with native soil from the site; the other test bed and lysimeter are filled with commercial construction sand. The lysimeters are used to directly measure evaporation from the two different soil types in order to better constrain the water balance in the test beds.
Data include meteorological data (preciptation, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and net solar radiation) and lysimeter data (load cell readings, soil moisture, and sump water level readings for two lysimeters)., Meteorological data include raw data (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and net radiation) as well as calculated estimates of potential evapotranspiration.
Lysimeter data include raw data (load cell voltage measurements, soil moisture measurements, and drainage stage), as well as calibrated lysimeter measurements.
Precipitation data include tipping bucket tips since last reset and calculated cumulative precipitation since the beginning of monitoring.
Load cell calibration data include load cell voltage readings, known added mass, and calculated calibration parameters., , # Precision lysimeter data: Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.15dv41p44](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.15dv41p44)

This dataset contains meteorological and experimental data for two small scale, precision lysimeters designed to directly measure bare soil evaporation in order to better constrain the near-surface water balance in an unsaturated soil.

## Description of the data and file structure

The data in this repository represent data collected by a pair of weighing lysimeters deployed alongside two test plots. One lysimeter is filled with construction sand (sand) and the other filled with native soil (soil). The data consiste of four .csv files: lysimeter_data.csv, precipitation.csv, meteorological.csv, and calibration_data.csv.

Experiment time range:

* Start date: 5/4/2021 9:15

* End Date: 11/24/2021 9:00

Study Area: river-adjacent flood plain near Reno, Nevada, perviously used for agriculture.

Ecoregion: Sierra Nevada-influenced Semiar...