Minidisk infiltrometer timeseries from nine burned areas in Northern California and Nevada

Northern California and Nevada are the geographic scope for this data release. It contains raw timeseries and metadata for 827 minidisk infiltrometer measurements conducted across nine burned areas and nearby unburned areas. Scott McCoy authored the dataset, which covers measurements from 2018 to 2023.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil infiltration recovery after wildfires based on timeseries measurements.
• Comparing hydrological properties between burned and unburned areas based on the described site comparisons.
• Analyzing temporal trends in soil water infiltration over a five-year period based on the 2018-2023 time range.

Strengths

• 827 individual measurements provide a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Data spans a five-year period from 2018 to 2023, enabling longitudinal study.
• Includes comparisons between nine burned areas and nearby unburned control sites.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• The 1.0 MB size suggests a small dataset, potentially limiting the complexity of models it can support.

Provenance

Source

Scott McCoy

Collection Method

Minidisk infiltrometer measurements conducted across field sites.

Time Range

2018-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 17:06:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern California and Nevada