Meteorological measurements from five locations within the Badger Wash study area near Mack, Colorado (ver. 3.0, September 2024)

These data are records collected from an automated weather station and four stand-alone tipping bucket rain gauges each with their own data logger that were in operation between February 2005 and December 2019 in the Badger Wash Study Area near Mack, Colorado as part of a larger project funded by the Bureau of Land Management. These files are hourly-interval data from the automated weather station with meteorological parameters of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, wind gusts, photon flux density and rainfall as well as from a soil pit with temperature and soil moisture measurements at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 cm deep. The standalone tipping-bucket rain gauge data which records the time of each tip were processed to mimic the hourly interval records of the automated weather station and included rain intensity parameters as well. A separate table created by the data logger in the automated weather station recorded the time of each tip of the its tipping bucket rain gauge those data were processed in the same way as for the standalone tipping buckets. The Badger Wash study area contains paired grazed and ungrazed watersheds which were originally studied from 1954 to 1965 (Lusby 1979). Data collection was conducted using automated weather stations physically visited and maintained by scientists from the Southwest Biological Science Center. These data span the time period from 2005 through 2019.

本数据集源自2005年2月至2019年12月期间，美国科罗拉多州马克（Mack）附近獾溪流域研究区（Badger Wash Study Area）内的一套自动气象站(automated weather station)与四台独立翻斗式雨量计(tipping bucket rain gauge)的采集记录，所有设备均配备独立数据记录仪(data logger)，本研究作为美国土地管理局(Bureau of Land Management)资助的大型项目的一部分实施。数据集包含两类逐小时观测数据：其一来自自动气象站，观测参数涵盖气温、相对湿度、风速、风向、阵风强度、光子通量密度(photon flux density)以及降雨量；其二来自土壤剖面监测点，在5、10、20、40、60、80及100厘米深度处同步采集土壤温度与土壤湿度数据。四台独立翻斗式雨量计的原始记录为单次翻斗触发时刻，经标准化处理后转换为与自动气象站对齐的逐小时数据集，同时新增降雨强度参数。此外，自动气象站配套的翻斗式雨量计也会记录单次翻斗触发时刻，其数据采用与独立翻斗式雨量计完全一致的流程进行处理，相关数据单独存储于数据记录仪生成的独立数据表中。獾溪流域研究区设有成对的放牧与禁牧流域，该区域最早的相关研究于1954年至1965年间开展（Lusby 1979）。本数据集的采集工作由美国西南生物科学中心(Southwest Biological Science Center)的科研人员通过实地巡检维护自动气象站完成，数据覆盖时段为2005年至2019年。