ISFS Lead Scientist: Steve Oncley
Engineers: Chris Rodon, Gary Granger, Isabel Suhr
Technicians: Dan Buonome, Tony Wiese
Data Managers: Jacquie Witte, Matt Paulus
The standard 5-min ISFS products include measurements from the following sensors:
Sensor
Short Name*
Manufacturer
Samples/s
Disdrometer
ott
Parsivel2
1
Radiometer
nr01
4-component Hukseflux NR01
0.2
Soils
Tsoil, Qsoil, Gsoil, Tau63
NCAR 4-level Tsoil,
Meter EC-5 Qsoil,
REBS HFT Gsoil, and Hukseflux TP01 Tau63
0.2
Snow depth
Visibility (T, RH, Rain rate parameters)
T.cs, RH.cs, Vis.cs
Campbell Scientific CS125
3D sonic anemometer
sonic
Campbell Scientific CSAT3** (C125)
20
H2O/CO2 Open-path InfraRed Gas Analyser (IRGA)
irga
Campbell Scientific (combination of EC100 and EC150)
20
Hygrothermometer
T, RH
NCAR SHT85
1
Nanobarometer
P
Paroscientific 6000
13
*Abbreviated short name that is used throughout this report.
**With the optional CSAT3A sonic anemometer head to couple with the IRGA EC150.
A subset of these sensor products (those sensors in bold) are in the high rate dataset.
Site Description and Sensors
11 flux towers were operated throughout the Heber City valley region, Utah. Towers comprised of two 30 m multilevel flux profile Rohns, i.e. supersites, and ten single low-level flux stations.
Refer to the table below for site locations and sensor configurations around Heber City. Note, site names in brackets are the short names used in the netCDF files.
Most of the sites were similarly instrumented. At the top of each site's tower are:
Sonic anemometer and open-path infrared H2O/CO2 gas analyzer (Campbell CSAT3AW/EC150) for turbulent fluxes,
All soil sensors (NCAR 4-level Tsoil, Meter EC-5 Qsoil, REBS HFT Gsoil, and Hukseflux TP01 Csoil) were buried at 0--5cm layer near the base of towered sites.
Radiometers are mounted separately on darkhorse tripods and are considered near-surface measurements.
Ott disdrometers are also set-up separately and close to the base of the towers.
