LPTEG-TREES-1: Soil Temperature, Moisture, and Ground Heat Flux Measurements, Summer 2019

Soil temperature, moisture, and surface ground heat flux measurements collected at the LPTEG-TREES-1 site in the Arctic tundra from July 1 to September 9, 2019. Wenbo Zhou from the University of Michigan authored this dataset, which includes soil temperature at 2 cm depth, liquid water content at 2 cm depth in the mineral soil, and ground heat flux reconstructed from a plate buried at 6 cm.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil thermal dynamics based on temperature and ground heat flux measurements.
• Analyzing soil moisture variability in Arctic peatlands based on liquid water content data.
• Validating land surface models using co-located temperature, moisture, and heat flux observations.
• Studying surface energy balance in permafrost regions based on reconstructed ground heat flux.

Strengths

• Measurements are co-located at a single site, enabling integrated analysis of soil properties.
• Data covers a specific 71-day summer period in 2019, providing a focused temporal snapshot.
• Ground heat flux is a reconstructed observation combining plate measurements and calculated energy storage.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

University of Michigan

Collection Method

Direct sensor measurements at the LPTEG-TREES-1 field site.

Time Range

2019-07-01 to 2019-09-09

Geography

Arctic tundra site at coordinates N66°53’55’’, E66°45’27’’