The National Wind Erosion Research Network, a collaboration between the USDA LTAR network and the Bureau of Land Management, operates 15 sites across western North America (with more planned) that measure aeolian (wind) sediment transport rates in order to quantify wind erosion and inform public land management. Resources The Jornada Basin site has been in […]
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) operates a meteorology and soil observation station on the Jornada Experimental Range as part of the SCAN network. In addition, extensive pedon and soil map data for the Jornada Basin are archived in NRCS databases (SSURGO and STATSGO). Resources The Jornada Exp Range NRCS SCAN site (2168) data is
There are 11 cameras in the Jornada Basin that are members of the PhenoCam network and are collecting repeat ground-based images. Imagery can be browsed at the PhenoCam website and at least 2 derived data products have been published. Data links for Jornada cameras and published Phenocam network datasets are listed in the “Data in
There are two eddy covariance towers in the Jornada Basin that are members of the AmeriFlux network. The AmeriFlux pages for the 2 sites, named US-Jo1 and US-Jo2, are below, and datasets are listed with DOI links in the “Data in other repositories” tab of the Jornada LTER data catalog. Resources US-Jo1, operated by Systems
The National Weather Service, part of NOAA, operates a meteorological station on the Jornada Experimental Range that belongs to the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). The earliest measurements from these stations began in 1915. Resources Data from the GHCN met station at JER Headquarters is available at NCDC Daily and monthly data are available There
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