Coweeta Synoptic Data from 49 sampling sites in the Upper Little Tennessee River Basin from 2009 to 2010 (drainage area, slope, particle size data)

This data was generated as part of synoptic sampling conducted at the Coweeta LTER between June 2009 and May 2010. 49 wadeable streams with low levels of development were sampled throughout the Upper Little Tennessee River Basin in the Southern Appalachians. This dataset contains the location code (visually categorized basin landcover), drainage area, slope, riparian code (visually categorized riparian conditions), percent fines (<2mm), and median particle size (D50) calculated from a Wolman pebble count. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of riparian vegetative conditions on a suite of channel morphological variables. At each site, a uniform 150 meter section of stream was surveyed. Within each reach, the active and bankfull channel widths were measured every 5 meters, where active channel width was defined as the vegetationless channel bed from left vegetation break to right vegetation break. All wood exceeding 10 cm diameter and 1.0 m length were tallied. A Wolman pebble count (N = 100) was conducted on the coarsest riffle in each stream reach. Slopes were measured from the upstream end of riffles over three riffle-to-riffle sequences with a level rod and tape. Riparian conditions at each reach were visually categorized. Drainage area was determined from 2006 Landsat imagery. A whitepaper on the Synoptic field sampling activites can be found at: http://coweeta.uga.edu/publications/white%20paper%20summary%20of%20synoptic%20sampling.pdf