SGP/EBBR/E18 - Soil Temperature and Moisture Probes in Set #1 Spiked Outputs

Soil moisture #1 and soil temperature #1 occasionally spiked at the same time.  

Little sensible and latent heat flux data were affected.

• 0-5 cm integrated soil temperature, site 2(ts1)
• latent heat flux(e)
• soil heat flow at the surface 1(g1)
• corrected sensible heat flux(h)
• 0-5 cm change in soil heat storage with time, site 2(ces1)
• Soil moisture 1 (mass water/mass dry soil)(sm1)

SGP/EBBR/E18 - Improved EBBR CR10 Program

Effective 20050330.0000, the EBBR.E18 CR10 program was revised to improve 
the quality of the primary measurements as follows:
   
1) An RMS procedure is used to determine max and min limits of acceptable
soil heat flow.  This is applied to the individual soil sets.  Measurements
outside the limits are rejected and the measurements within the limits are
used to calculate the average soil heat flow.
   
2) Max and min limits are used to determine incorrect values of net
radiation, sensible heat flux (h), latent heat flux (e), and automatic
exchange mechanism (AEM) signal.  If AEM signal is outside the limits, h 
and e are set to 999s.  If net radiation is outside the limits, h and e are 
set to 999s. If h or e are outside the limits, h and e are set to 999s.
   
Virtually no incorrect soil measurement will affect the primary 
measurements of h and e.
   
By setting h and e to 999s, it can be easily seen that the primary 
variables are incorrect; no other interpretation is possible.
   
Prior to 20050330, the improved CR10 program was NOT in effect.  DQRs have
been submitted for known instances of incorrect soil measurements which
affected the quality of the primary measurements of h and e.
   
Note: the DQR begin date is the begin date of the sgp30ebbrE18.b1 data
stream.  The earlier version of the CR10 program was also used on previous
EBBR datastream names (e.g. sgp30ebbrE18.a1).

• latent heat flux(e)
• corrected sensible heat flux(h)
• average surface soil heat flow at the surface(ave_shf)

SGP/EBBR/E18 - metadata corrections

On 20050723, a series of metadata corrections and additions were completed.  These 
metadata changes apply to all EBBR.E18 data collected by ARM back to the installation of the 
instrument in July 1997. Please see the current metadata for correct information.  These 
changes do not affect data values or quality.	

The changes are summarized below:
1) Update of "sensor location" information
2) Addition of installation dates for the systems
3) Correction of soil type
4) Correction of soil moisture units (from "by volume" to "gravimetric")

• Time offset from base_time(base_time)

• Time offset from base_time(base_time)

• Time offset from base_time(base_time)