Time series of meteorological station data in the EarthShape study areas of in the Coastal Cordillera, Chile

The DFG Priority Program 1803 "EarthShape - Earth Surface Shaping by Biota” (www.earthshape.net, short description of the project below) installed a meteorological station network consisting of four stations between ~26 °S to ~38 °S in the Coastal Cordillera of Chile, South America. The stations are intended to provide baseline meteorological data along the climate and ecological gradient investigated in the EarthShape program. The stations are located in the EarthShape study areas, encompassing desert, semi-desert, mediterranean, and temperate climate zones. Each station is configured to include sensors that record precipitation at ground level, radiation at 2.8 m height, wind at 3 m height, 25 cm depth soil temperature, soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity, 2 m air temperature and relative humidity, and barometric pressure at 30-minute intervals. The data recording started in March/April 2016. The EarthShape project runs until December 2021. Data collection will continue until that date, and potentially longer depending on available funds.

This publication provides two sets of data: raw data and processed data. The raw data contains 2 file types per meteorological station: (1) all measured parameters of the whole dataset measured in 30 minutes intervals as downloaded from the station. Furthermore, we provide (2) one table per station of high-resolution precipitation events, measured in 5 min. intervals that were triggered during rain events at each station. The processed data consists of a continuous timeseries of observations since the activation of each station. The processing consists of the exclusion of erroneous data, caused by maintenance of the weather-stations and sporadic malfunction of sensors detected during data screening. The excluded data is communicated in a logfile (excel table), comments from data screening, solar eclipse and others are summarized in history files (ASCII ). the full description of the data and methods is provided in the data description file (Data description file).

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Version history:

16 January 2023 (Version 1.1): Alexander Beer included as additional author, addition of new data from 2020-04-14 bis 2022-10-10. All files of the first version are moved to the "previous-versions" folder.

09 October 2023 (Version 1.2): Addition of new time series data to 2023-07-31. Detailed changelog information can be found in the “History” files in the respective subfolders for each site.

德国研究基金会（DFG）优先项目1803号「地球塑造（EarthShape）——生物营力塑造地表形态」（官网：www.earthshape.net，项目简要说明如下）在南美洲智利海岸山脉带，于南纬约26°至38°区间布设了由4座气象站组成的观测网络，旨在为EarthShape项目所研究的气候与生态梯度带提供基准气象数据。

所有气象站均设置于EarthShape的研究区域内，覆盖荒漠、半荒漠、地中海气候与温带气候等多种气候类型。每座气象站均搭载多类传感器，以30分钟为采集间隔，记录以下参数：地面降水量、2.8米高度处的辐射强度、3米高度处的风速、25厘米深度土壤温度、土壤含水量与体积电导率、2米高度处的空气温度与相对湿度，以及大气压强。

数据采集工作于2016年3/4月正式启动，EarthShape项目原计划执行至2021年12月，数据采集将持续至该节点，后续是否延长将视经费保障情况而定。

本次公开的数据集包含两类数据：原始数据与预处理后数据。
原始数据对应每座气象站两种文件类型：(1) 以30分钟为间隔采集的全参数实测数据集，直接从气象站下载获取；(2) 每站一张高分辨率降水事件统计表，以5分钟为间隔记录降雨时段内触发的降水数据。
预处理后数据为各站自启用以来的连续时间序列观测数据，预处理流程包括剔除经数据筛查确认的、因气象站维护或传感器偶发故障导致的错误数据。错误数据的相关信息将记录于日志文件（Excel表格）中，数据筛查说明、日食事件等其他备注信息则汇总于历史文件（ASCII格式）中。
完整的数据与方法说明详见数据说明文档（Data description file）。