Data Collected

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]

 

 


© 1999 Authors as indicated and the HERB Research Project, Department of Geography, King's College London