The following data is collected by the HERB project and will be available in future versions of this CDROM
Pasture (deforested) station
Hourly data
Solar radiation received and reflected. [Skye Instruments silicon cell pyranometer]
Red/far red radiation received and reflected. [Skye Instruments silicon cell sensor]
Blue radiation received. [Skye Instruments silicon cell sensor]
PAR radiation received. [Skye instruments PAR sensor]
Humidity . [Skye instruments humidity probe.]
Air temperature. [Skye thermistor]
Rainfall. [Environmental Measurements Tipping bucket raingauge (bucket size 0.2 mm)]
Overland flow. [Tipping bucket]
Throughflow [Tipping bucket]
Soil erosion(sediment loss). [Strain gauge based sediment weighing system.]
Soil matric potential. [Soil moisture corporation gypsum blocks]
Soil temperature. [thermocouple]
Leaf Wetness sensor. [Campbell Scientific]
Wind speed. [Environmental Measurements]
Forest site
Hourly data
As above plus:
Stemflow from a number of trees [measured using Environmental Measurements tipping bucket (bucket size 0.2 mm)]
Throughfall collected over aluminium sheet [measured in large tipping bucket]
Cloud scavenging by epiphytes [measured as g water using linear displacement transducer over area]
Cloud scavenging by standard net [measured as g water using linear displacement transducer over area]
Drainage from epiphytes [measured using Environmental measurements tipping bucket (capacity 0.2 mm)]
9 leaf wetness sensors at 1 m intervals from 1 to 10 m from surface [Campbell Scientific]
River Site
Hourly data
PAR radiation received. [Skye instruments PAR sensor] at 2m, 3m and 5m from the ground.
Throughfall [Environmental Measurements tipping buckets, capacity 0.2 mm] 2 randomly moving gauges
Throughfall collected over aluminium sheet [measured in large tipping bucket]
Soil moisture [Delta T Devices Theta probe, at 20cm depth]
River level (Rio Tambito)[Druck water level sensor]
River level (Rio Palo-Verde)[Druck water level sensor]