A-Data: Ground Soil Heat Flux and Meteorological Observations from Hanford, Washington

Observations from a semi-arid site in the Hanford area of Washington State (46°24′32″N, 119°16′30″W). The dataset includes ground soil heat flux, temperature, and land surface meteorological data, with sensible and latent heat fluxes quality-controlled and gap-filled by the authors. It was compiled by Gao et al. (2017) and referenced by Qian Yang of Tsinghua University.

Use Cases

• Modeling land surface energy balance based on ground soil heat flux and temperature data.
• Analyzing surface-atmosphere interactions based on land surface meteorological variables.
• Validating remote sensing products based on in-situ sensible and latent heat flux measurements.
• Studying microclimatology in semi-arid regions based on the described meteorological observations.

Strengths

• Data includes quality-controlled and gap-filled sensible and latent heat fluxes, referencing established methodology from Liu et al. (2014).
• Observations are tied to a specific geographic location with precise coordinates provided.
• Dataset is derived from a peer-reviewed publication (Gao et al., 2017) with a DOI.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Gao et al. (2017) via https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027160

Collection Method

Field observations at the Hanford site.

Geography

Hanford 300 area, Washington State, USA (46°24′32″N, 119°16′30″W)