Forcing and Validation Data for Six Russian Stations in the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

This data set consists of meteorological and hydrological observations
from the 6 Russian stations described in Robock, et al (1995) and
Vinnikov and Yeserkepova (1991) for use in land surface models.

The data set consists of the following meteorological measurements:
saturation deficiency (mb), height of lower cloud layer (km), dew
point temperature (C), total cloudiness amount (tenths of total
coverage), lower cloudiness amount (tenths of total coverage), wind
direction, wind velocity (m/sec), total precipitation (mm), air
pressure (mb), soil surface temperature (C), air temperature (C).
Actinometric data comsists of net radiation at the surface (longwave
and shortwave), direct shortwave radiation on a surface perpendicular
to the solar zenith angle, total (direct and diffuse) incoming solar
radiation, albedo of the surface, total and lower cloudiness (tenths
of total coverage). Hydrologic data consists of available soil
moisture, mean snow cover thickness near the station (cm), water
equivalent snow cover thickness (cm), snow covered area (%),
max. water vapor presure on the snow surface (mb), evaporation from
the snow surface during night and daylight (cm), total evaporation
from grasscover surface, precipitation at same time as total
evaporation, total evaporation from surface under vegetation (cm),
freezing depth of soil from surface (cm), snow cover thickness at the
station (cm), melting of snow from the surface (cm), ground
temperature (C), depth and temperature of water table.

Data are freely available from the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank at
in ASCII format:

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/DOWNLOAD/RUSWET-GRASS-6STA/freezing/