BOREAS TE-20 Supplementary Site Information for NSA Tower Sites Summary The BOREAS TE-20 team collected several data sets for use in developing and testing models of forest ecosystem dynamics. This data set and documentation were compiled from field notes and other information provided by Hugo Veldhuis, who did the original soils mapping in the field during 1994. The information here describes the soils and landscape characteristics of the NSA- MSA and tower sites. This data set supplements the following BOREAS data sets: BOREAS TE-20 Soils Data over the NSA and Tower Sites in Raster Format BOREAS TE-20 Soils Data over the NSA and Tower Sites in Vector Format BOREAS TE-20 NSA Soil Lab Data The files containing the supplementary information are: HORIZON-SITE_CODES.DOC - This Microsoft Word file contains descriptions of the codes used in the HORIZON.CSV and SITE.CSV files. HORIZON.CSV - This comma-delimited ASCII file contains soil horizon information collected at the various sites. MANITOBA_FIELD_MANUAL.PDF - This Portable Document Format (PDF) file (readable with Adobe ACROBAT) contains guidelines provided by Manitoba Land Resource Unit and used by Hugo Veldhuis to describe the various soils as they relate to the data fields in the Manitoba Detailed Soil Site Database. NOTES.CSV - This comma-delimited ASCII file contains various notes collected during the site surveys. SITE.CSV - This comma-delimited ASCII file contains site location and soil information. SITE_LOC.CSV - This comma-delimited ASCII file contains local site location identification information. VEG_CODES.DOC - This Microsoft Word file contains descriptions of the vegetation codes, Latin name, and common names used in the NOTES.CSV file. The vegetation is divided up according to layer by tree, shrub, groundcover, mosses and lichens, and other. VELDHUIS_REPORT.DOC - This Microsoft Word file contains a summary report by Hugo Veldhuis that describes the general background of the geographic area, the relationships between soils and the landscape in which they occur. This information will also help the user to understand the relationships between landscape components, drainage, vegetation and permafrost. Investigators Investigators Name and Title: Hugo Veldhuis, Senior Pedologist Title of Investigation: Soils of Tower Sites and Super Site Northern Study Area Thompson, Manitoba, Canada Contact Information Contact 1: Hugo Veldhuis Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada CLBRR, Manitoba Land Res. Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA (204) 474-6124 (phone) (204) 474-7633 (fax) Contact 2: Gloria Rapalee Department of Earth System Sciences University of California, Irvine NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD (301) 286-0544 (phone) (301) 286-0239 (fax) grapalee@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov Contact 3: David Knapp Raytheon ITSS Corporation NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD (301) 286-1424 (phone) (301) 286-0239 (fax) David.Knapp@gsfc.nasa.gov Data Access Contact for Data Center/Data Access Information: These BOREAS data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOS-DIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The BOREAS contact at ORNL is: ORNL DAAC User Services Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 241-3952 ornldaac@ornl.gov ornl@eos.nasa.gov Procedures for Obtaining Data: BOREAS data may be obtained through the ORNL DAAC World Wide Web site at http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/ or users may place requests for data by telephone, electronic mail, or fax. Output Products and Availability: Requested data can be provided electronically on the ORNL DAAC's anonymous FTP site or on various media including, CD-ROMs, 8-MM tapes, or diskettes. The complete set of BOREAS data CD-ROMs, entitled "Collected Data of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study", edited by Newcomer, J., et al., NASA, 1999, are also available. Journal Articles and Study Reports Clayton, J.S., W.A. Ehrlich, D.B. Cann, J.H. Day, and I.B. Marshall, Soils of Canada. 1977. Volume 1, Soil Report; Volume 2, Soil Inventory. Publ. 1459, Research Branch Canada Department of Agriculture. Harden, J.W., K.P. O'Neill, S.E. Trumbore, H. Veldhuis, and B.J. Stocks. 1997. Moss and soil contributions to the annual net carbon flux of a maturing boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research. 102(D24): 28,805-28,816. Harden, J., with G. Rapalee and S. Robinson. 1999. The role of peatlands in the carbon cycle. In Notes from the Underground: Soil Processes and Global Change. Edited by E. A. Holland. NATO ASI-Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, West Germany. In Press. Rapalee, G., E.A. Davidson, J.W. Harden, S.E. Trumbore, and H. Veldhuis. 1998a. Scaling soil carbon stocks and fluxes at the BOREAS northern study area. A digital poster (html_pages/groups/tgb/tgb12/tgb12_poster.pdf). In Collected Data of The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study. Eds. J. Newcomer, D. Landis, S. Conrad, S. Curd, K. Huemmrich, D. Knapp, A. Morrell, J. Nickeson, A. Papagno, D. Rinker, R. Strub, T. Twine, F. Hall, and P. Sellers. CD-ROM. NASA, 2000. Rapalee, G., S.E. Trumbore, E.A. Davidson, J.W. Harden, and H. Veldhuis. 1998b. Soil carbon stocks and their rates of accumulation and loss in a boreal forest landscape, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 12 (4), 687-701. Rapalee, G., E.A. Davidson, J.W. Harden, S.E. Trumbore, and H. Veldhuis. 1999. Scaling soil carbon stocks and fluxes at the BOREAS northern study area. In Proceedings of the 1997 International Boreal Forest Research Association Conference, Duluth MN. Sellers, P. and F. Hall. 1994. Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: Experiment Plan. Version 1994-3.0, NASA BOREAS Report (EXPLAN 94). Sellers, P., F. Hall, H. Margolis, B. Kelly, D. Baldocchi, G. den Hartog, J. Cihlar, M.G. Ryan, B. Goodison, P. Crill, K.J. Ranson, D. Lettenmaier, and D.E. Wickland. 1995. The BORreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS): an overview and early results from the 1994 field year. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 76(9): 1549-1577. Sellers, P., F. Hall, and K.F. Huemmrich. 1996. BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study: 1994 Operations. NASA BOREAS Report (OPS DOC 94). 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List of Acronyms ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange BOREAS - BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study BORIS - BOREAS Information System CD-ROM - Compact Disk-Read Only memory CFS - Canadian Forest Service DAAC - Distributed Active Archive Center DOY - Julian Day of Year EOS - Earth Observing System EOSDIS - EOS Data and Information System GMT - Greenwich Mean Time GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center HTML - HyperText Markup Language IFC - Intensive Field Campaign MIX - Mixed Wood MSA - Modeling Study Area NAD83 - North American Datum of 1983 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSA - Northern Study Area OA - Old Aspen OBS - Old Black Spruce ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory PANP - Prince Albert National Park PDF - Portable Document Format SSA - Southern Study Area SST - Super Site TE - Terrestrial Ecology TF - Tower Flux URL - Uniform Resource Locator UTM - Universal Transverse Mercator Last Modified on 12-May-1999 TE20_Supp_Site_Data.doc 06/09/99