Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)/KNZ001: Prairie Precipitation from the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA)

Lter - Long-Term Ecological Research Program/Konza Prairie (KNZ)

LTER/KNZ001 [Summary adapted from the LTER Core Data Set Catalog]:

This data set contains daily records of precipitation on 11 raingauges
at 10 sites on Konza Prairie. Three sites (HQ1, 020A and 002C; SE)
have 7-day clocks (one revolution per week), while the other 8 have
24-hour clocks (one revolution per day). The Konza headquarters
weather station has one of each type and both are operated
year-round. The remaining raingauges are operated from April 1 to
November 1. Precipitation amounts are recorded in mm. Data from all
raingauges are recorded on daily bases while raingauges with one day
clocks also have data recorded on 15 minute increment during storm
events.

The Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA) is a representative of
native tallgrasss prairie in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. The
Konza Prairie was established as a research facility in 1972 and now
contains 3,487 ha. The land was acquired by the Nature Conservancy
and is leased to the Division of Biology at Kansas State University
for research purposes.

Information about the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program can
be obtained from:

LTER Network Office
College of Forest Resources AR-10
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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or

National Science Foundation
Division of Environmental Biology
Long-Term Projects in Environmental Biology
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