Fort Valley Experimental Forest 30-minute meteorological data: 2003-present

This data publication includes precipitation and temperature data summarized every 30 minutes from March 2003 to March 2013 at the Fort Valley Experimental Forest in Arizona. Information on how to access the data collected at this site from as early as 1909 from the Nation Climate Data Center (NCDC) is also included.
The Coconino Experiment Station (later Fort Valley Experiment Station) was established in 1908 to investigate reproduction in ponderosa pine forests. Regular meteorological observations have been made since that time to support this and other research.
At the time this documentation was written, the temperature and precipitation data for this site from 1909 - 2014 were available through the National Climate Data Center (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov, see Data Access / Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily). The station name was "Fort Valley, AZ US" and the station id was "GHCND:USC00023160". See the Process Steps below for more details.

Additional information about the Fort Valley Experimental Forest can be found at https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/fort-valley/.

Original metadata date was 10/10/10. Metadata modified on 02/04/11 to adjust citation to include the addition of a DOI (digital object identifier). On 8/17/2011 metadata modified to include additional information about data available via the online query. Minor metadata updates made on 07/29/2013 in addition to including a few more years of data. On 10/14/2014 additional metadata updates were made. Minor metadata updates on 12/20/2016.