THE TARRAWARRA SOIL MOISTURE DATA SET - Data Access


This data should be referred to as to Western and Grayson, 1998 (Water Resources Research, in review)


Documentation

The following files provide documentation of the data collection methods and file formats. This data is Copyright © 1995-1998, Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology, The University of Melbourne. Details relating to this copyright can be found in a copyright statement in each of the readme files.

Complete Data Archive

The complete data archive can be downloaded by downloading eight archive files which are available in unix, DOS/windows and macintosh formats.

Terrain data and site locations

Digital terrain models

Digital elevation models and the original topographic survey data can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

Measurement sites

Measurement site coordinates can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

Soil moisture patterns

Individual soil moisture patterns can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

27 September 1995 (20K)

14 February 1996 (20K)

23 February 1996 (20K)

28 March 1996 (20K)

13 April 1996 (20K)

22 April 1996 (20K)

2 May 1996 (94K)

3 July 1996 (20K)

2 September 1996 (20K)

20 September 1996 (20K)

25 October 1996 (20K)

10 November 1996 (40K)

29 November 1996 (20K)

 

 

Soil moisture profiles

Sets of soil moisture profiles for each neutron moisture meter site can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

Site 1 (4K)

Site 2 (4K)

Site 3 (4K)

Site 4 (4K)

Site 5 (4K)

Site 6 (4K)

Site 7 (4K)

Site 8 (4K)

Site 9 (4K)

Site 10 (4K)

Site 11 (4K)

Site 12 (4K)

Site 13 (4K)

Site 14 (4K)

Site 15 (4K)

Site 16 (4K)

Site 17 (4K)

Site 18 (4K)

Site 19 (4K)

Site 20 (4K)

Shallow Water Table Data

Shallow water table data can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

Meteorological and Runoff Data

Daily meteorological data can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

6 Minute meteorological data for each year can be downloaded from this table. Note that these files are large and compressed versions are available for common computing platforms.

Unix
(compressed tar file)

DOS/Windows
(zip file)

MAC
(stuffit file)

ASCII
(uncompressed)

1995 (610K)

1995 (560K)

1995 (650K)

1995 (2370K)

1996 (1630K)

1996 (1500K)

1996 (1730K)

1996 (6170K)

1997 (890K)

1997 (840K)

1997 (960K)

1997 (4620K)

Soils Data

Soil characteristics can be downloaded from the following ascii files.

Note that additional, more detailed soils data will hopefully become available in the future as the result of an in depth study of the soil characteristics or the Tarrawarra catchment being conducted by Dr Véronique Gomendy at the Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology. This will include detailed descriptions of approximately 120 soil cores, soil water retention data and additional particle size distribution data. This data will be documented in a separate paper and will also be available via the web.

Vegetation and Roughness Data

Vegetation and surface roughness data can be downloaded from the following ascii files.


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Created: December 1997
Last Modified: 9 September 2015
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