NEON TIS tripod data, D12 Yellowstone, 2013-2015

NEON site designs strongly rely on the wind patterns to determine the correct orientation of the tower and sensors. Because we do not have in situ measurements yet at the NEON sites, we must rely on historical data from the closest available weather station, which sometimes can be > 30 miles away. In a few NEON locations, these long distances between the closest weather station and the NEON tower site cause large uncertainties and potential risks to NEON’s science goals. In other instances, local topographic conditions can affect our ability to measure winds and climate, which are also not captured in historical data. To minimize the uncertainty and to lower the risks associated with the tower and site design, NEON plans to measure local winds and meteorological conditions with a portable tripod-based weather station at a few selected NEON sites for a limited time (~ 1 y) prior to construction at the site. These sites are selected because of their importance to the overall NEON design, and because we think that the historical data are not representative. The Yellowstone core site is one of these sites.
This dataset contains all Yellowstone TIS tripod data in the form of a multivolume .zip archive. The .zip.001 and .zip.002 files can be downloaded individually, and need to be in the same folder for extraction with software such as 7-zip. For extraction the software should be pointed only to the .zip.001 volume, and the contents of all subsequent volumes are detected and extracted automatically.
Alternatively, it is possible to “select all” during the download operation. However, the resulting .zip container is quite large (~18 GB) and thus more prone to network interruptions. Also, a “headers error” can be expected during initial extraction of the container, and a subsequent extraction of the multivolume archive is still necessary.