uid=HBR,o=EDI,dc=edirepository,dc=org all public read doi:10.6073/pasta/3d093a09034c4863b3834f5db58fc0b2 USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station John Campbell USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station john.campbell2@usda.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-1696 Associated Party Amey Bailey USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station amey.bailey@usda.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8550 Associated Party Nina Lany USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station nina.lany@usda.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0868-266X Associated Party 2020-10-05 From 1956 to 2014, watershed precipitation was estimated using the Thiessen Means weighting method. Daily watershed precipitation values were a weighted average of daily precipitation from standard gauges in or near the watershed. The weighting factor for each gauge was the fraction of the watershed area nearest that gauge. Beginning in 2015, a similar system was implemented using the 10 remaining rain gauges, however Inverse Distance Weighting was used to estimate the weighting of each gauge instead of the Theissen polygon approach. These data were gathered at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Thornton, NH, which is operated and maintained by the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. ecosystems forests watersheds precipitation rain LTER Controlled Vocabulary disturbance LTER Core Research Area HBR Hubbard Brook LTER Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study HBES HBEF New Hampshire NH White Mountain National Forest gage gauge HBES Vocabulary climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere ISO 19115 Topic Category Climate change Climate change effects Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment National Research & Development Taxonomy This information is released under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 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The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data. Thank you. Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest -71.8062 -71.7022 43.959 43.914 1956-01-02 2020-08-22 ongoing Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study hbr-im@lternet.edu Environmental Data Initiative info@environmentaldatainitiative.org https://environmentaldatainitiative.org Environmental Data Initiative SAMPLING DESIGN Between 1956 and 2014, precipitation was measured at Hubbard Brook by a network of 7 Belfort Universal Precipitation model 5-780 weighing recording rain gauges and 24 Standard U.S. Weather Bureau 8-inch rain gauges (Bailey et al. 2003, Campbell et al. 2007). Beginning in 2011, electronic NOAH IV Total Precipitation Gauges (ETI Instrument Systems, Inc.) were phased into operations, and the electronic gauges were the only instruments used from 2015 onwards. See provenance dataset hbr.13 for collection details. From 1956 to 2014, the analog charts on the recording rain gauges were changed approximately weekly, at which time the accumulation in the standard rain gauges was measured. The daily recording rain gauge data and weekly standard rain gauge data were entered into the computer. Missing data were filled by estimation from other nearby gauges. A computer program used the recording gauge data to prorate the standard gauge data into daily amounts, and calculated daily precipitation on each gaged watershed by the Thiessen Mean weighting method (Linsley et al., 1958). A table of weighting values is included in the file thiessen_weights.csv. Beginning in 2015, the daily weighted precipitation for each watershed was estimated with the electronic gauges deployed at only 10 sites. The weighted contribution of each gauge to each watershed was estimated with an Inverse Distance Weighting approach (Green et al. 2018), and the weights for the south- and north-facing watersheds are included in the files idw_weights_new_sfw.csv and idw_weights_nfw.csv. Bailey, Amey S, J. W Hornbeck, John L Campbell, and C. Eagar. 2003. Hydrometeorological Database For Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: 1955-2000. USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. Campbell, J.L., Driscoll, C.T., Eagar, C., Likens, G.E., Siccama, T.G., Johnson, C.E., Fahey, T.J., Hamburg, S.P., Holmes, R.T., Bailey, A.S., and Buso, D.C. 2007. Long-term trends from ecosystem research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-17. 41 pp.Newtown Square, PA., U.S., USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station. Linsley, Jr., R.K., Kohler, M.A., and Paulhus, J.L.H. 1958. Hydrology for Engineers. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. Green, M.B., Campbell, J.L., Yanai, R.D., Bailey, S.W., Bailey, A.S., Grant, N., Halm, I., Kelsey, E.P. and Rustad, L.E., 2018. Downsizing a long-term precipitation network: Using a quantitative approach to inform difficult decisions. PLoS one, 13(5), p.e0195966. This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices. This provenance metadata does not contain entity specific information. USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station This online link references an EML document that describes data used in the creation of this derivative data package. https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-hbr/13/14 Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study hbr-im@lternet.edu USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station Principal Investigator USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Daily Watershed Precipitation Daily Watershed Precipitation dailyWatershedPrecip1956-2020.csv 3642430 60e02f5b4e92283a667afc4efcc36211 1 \r\n column , https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-hbr/14/12/c606bfe2f2deb3fa3eabf692ae15f02d DATE Date date YYYY-MM-DD watershed Watershed identification number string Watershed identification number Precip Precipitation float millimeter real 0 159.8 181815 Watershed information Watershed information watershed_info.csv 376 24063256ccd3af213ef7f047ec70f310 1 \r\n column , https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-hbr/14/12/63901b0886444c6376cfa4621643aac7 watershed watershed identifier string watershed identifier treatment brief description of treatment applied string brief description of treatment applied area area of watershed in hectares float hectare real 11.8 76.4 begin.year year monitoring was initiated date YYYY 9 idw_weights_new_sfw Inverse distance weighting – south facing watersheds idw_weights_new_sfw.csv 406 0df75ae605992ca84fbe4b1d7e5adadb text/csv https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-hbr/14/12/b96e0b1c19ffe495c7fe1d36a4477ae6 unknown idw_weights_nfw Inverse distance weighting – north facing watersheds idw_weights_nfw.csv 181 eeccfa579b514cbf398de0fa5d20917d text/csv https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-hbr/14/12/c2c14077e5720e56188bcabb3b6e5efc unknown thiessen_weights Theissen weighting factors for estimating watershed precipitation from standard rain gage precipitation thiessen_weights.csv 734 2479e6b2d636665e913b2ed25b6634bb text/csv https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-hbr/14/12/c4f72fa0cb155f1b61f1333bb67e3d00 unknown