Soil moisture and temperature data along the northeast facing hillslope at the Lower Montane site in the East River Watershed, Colorado.

Creators: Baptiste DafflonORCID, Emmanuel Leger

Year: 2023

DOI: 10.15485/1646477

License: CC-BY 4.0

Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry.The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. The exact coordinates of the locations surveyed are in the data files. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C ; Kakalia Z ; Banfield J ; Berkelhammer M ; Brodie E ; Christianson D ; Dafflon B ; Carbone M S ; Carroll R ; Chadwick K D ; Christensen J ; Enquist B J ; Fox P ; Henderson M ; Gochis D ; Kueppers L ; Powell T ; Matheus Carnevali P ; Singha K ; Sorensen P ; Tokunaga T ; Versteeg R ; Wilkins M ; Williams K ; Worsham M ; Wu Y ; Agarwal D (2020): Location Identifiers, Metadata, and Map for Field Measurements at the East River Watershed, Colorado, USA. Watershed Function SFA. doi:10.15485/1660962

Temporal extent: 2016-11-06 to 2018-10-15

Bounding box: 38.880°N to 39.034°N, -107.050°W to -106.880°W

Publisher: RMBL

Tags: soil moisture, soil temperature, microclimate, moisture, temperature, hillslope, toe, sensor, CATEGORICAL:NONE EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS, CATEGORICAL:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Genetics & Evolution, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Geology & Tectonics, Soil Science, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs