Meteorological Towers 2017-11-22T12:13:48.025-06:00 This dataset is part of the common observation in the centralized repository for public access, also known as the Common Observatory Repository (CORe), of the USDA ARS Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) network. This is a National Program 211: Water Availability and Watershed Management. Also The National Wind Erosion Research Network was established in 2014 as a collaborative effort led by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Long Term Agro-Ecosystem Research (LTAR) network and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The research domain incorporates the diverse soils and vegetation communities in the rangelands and croplands of the western United States, with sites located in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, Colorado, North Dakota, Utah, Idaho and Washington. We have a tower that collects data for the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network. Our site is part of the NEON project with a tower that is designed to collect and provide open data that characterize and quantify complex, rapidly changing ecological processes across the US. We have a National Center for Environmental Information (NOAA) tower that collects daily summaries of weather data. A Natural Resource Conservation (NRCS) National Water and Climate tower that collects snow and water data. This data set is to share all site locations of meteorological towers, soil and rain gauges located on the Northern Great Plains Laboratory with output data produced from those towers. "Vision and goals of the LTAR Vision: Transdisciplinary science conducted over decades on the land in different regions, geographically scalable, enhancing the sustainability of agro-ecosystem goods and services. Goal: To sustain a land-based infrastructure for research, environmental management testing, and education that enables understanding and forecasting of the Nation’s capacity to provide agricultural commodities and other ecosystem goods and services under changing environmental and resource-use conditions." Research at the Mandan site is funded by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) via ARS Project Number 3064-21660-003-00, in coordination with the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network.  Site availability is facilitated by the Area IV Soil Conservation Districts in North Dakota. Mark A. Liebig, Mark.Liebig@ARS.USDA.GOV Nicanor Z. Saliendra, Nicanor.Saliendra@ARS.USDA.GOV Jennifer Carter USDA ARS NGPRL, Mandan, ND USDA ARS NGPRLMandanND meteorological tower sitestemperaturewind speedwind directionambient relative humidityrainfallphotosyntheticalyy active radiationincoming short and long wave radiation USDA ARS NGPRL Mandan ND meteorological tower sites temperature wind speed wind direction ambient relative humidity rainfall photosyntheticalyy active radiation incoming short and long wave radiation Jennifer Carter USDA ARS Computational Biologist Jennifer.Carter@ars.usda.gov http://10.133.168.107/I2_30-min_avg/index.html http://10.133.168.107/H5_30-min_avg/index.html http://10.133.168.107/SandyLoam_W3b/index.html https://winderosionnetwork.org/ https://ndawn.ndsu.nodak.edu//station-info.html?station=36 http://www.neonscience.org/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets/GHCND/stations/GHCND:USC00325479/detail https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=2020 http://services1.arcgis.com/SyUSN23vOoYdfLC8/arcgis/rest/services/Towers_Web/FeatureServer FGDC CSDGM Metadata 2017-11-22 09:15:09.88 2017-11-30 16:17:39.95 1.0 FGDC editor:esri.dijit.metadata.editor 2017-11-22 2c3ba86f1c9345bda5087e35f4ff7dd5 Mark A Liebig USDA ARS NGRL Soil Scientist Mark.Liebig@ARS.USDA.GOV 701-667-3079 8:ooAM to 5:00PM Nicanor Saliendra USDA ARS NGPRL Ecologist Nicanor.Saliendra@ARS.USDA.GOV 701-667-3022 8:ooAM to 5:00PM Jennifer Carter USDA ARS NGPRL Computational Biologist Jennifer.Carter@ars.usda.gov 8:00AM till 5:00PM