MC11_1993: Soil Temperature

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Soil Temperature

Description

Daily soil- and reference-temperature data for observation well MC11 for March 1, 1993 through November 30, 1993.

Usage

MC11_1993

Format

Data frame with 271 rows and 10 columns

Name	Type	Description
YEAR	numeric	Year of measurement
JULIAN	numeric	The Julian day of the year of the measurement
MONTH	numeric	Month of measurement
DAY	numeric	Day of month of measurement
TEMP.REF	numeric	Reference temperature in shelter
TEMP.0.5	numeric	Soil temperature at 0.5 meter depth
TEMP.1.0	numeric	Soil temperature at 1.0 meter depth
TEMP.1.5	numeric	Soil temperature at 1.5 meter depth
TEMP.2.0	numeric	Soil temperature at 2.0 meter depth
TEMP.2.5	numeric	Soil temperature at 2.5 meter depth

Note: all temperatures are in degrees Celsius.

Source

Extracted from the MC11 file on the CDROM in Landon and others (1997).

References

Landon, M.K., Delin, G.N., Nelson, K.J., Regan, C.P., Lamb, J.A., Larson, S.J., Capel, P.D., Anderson, J.L., and Dowdy, R.H., 1997, Water-quality and hydrogeologic data used to evaluate the effects of farming systems on ground-water quality at the Management Systems Evaluation Area near Princeton, Minnesota, 1991-95: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-22, 31 p.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(MC11_1993)
# plot the reference temperature
with(MC11_1993, plot(JULIAN, TEMP.REF, type='l'))

## End(Not run)

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