Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2001-05-11 05:00:00 (DOY 131)
Author: Dennis Baldocchi
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Summary: Slept through alarms and started pre-dawn water potentials late; pressure bomb tank ran out of gas after 3 trees, readings not completed.

WHO: Nancy Kiang, Nina Kilham (technician in Tracy Benning's lab)
WHERE: Tonzi Ranch
WHEN: overnight, Thursday-Friday, 5/10-11/01
WEATHER: 94°F, clear, hot, ground dry and grasses turning brown in open
areas
WHAT:
- Move sapflow sensors to fresh position on tree.
- Measure pre-dawn water potential of sapflow trees
- Measure LAI of sapflow trees
- Take stem and soil samples for water isotopes.
- Install dendrometer bands.

5:00, Pre-dawn water potential measurements started at 5:00 DST
(unfortunately, we slept through our alarms, which were set to 4:00 am).
Started measuring at Set Q, 2 leaves per sapflow tree: water potentials
all around -2.0 to -2.5 bar. Ended measurements with Set P at 6:20 DST,
sky already light but sun not risen yet. The water potentials at Set P
were getting lower as the sky lightened, ending with -5.0 bar at 6:20 DST.

15:10 DST, Midday leaf water potentials started at Set P. Unfortunately,
the pressure bomb tank ran out of gas after just measuring 3 trees. We
re-filled the small canister at the lab and re-filled the pressure bomb on
5/10/01, but the tank only reached 500 bar, uncertain why. Next time,
carefully check the pressure of the re-fill tank at the lab.

Data are in TonziLeafWaterPotential.xls.

Dendrometer bands
Installed dendrometer bands on the following trees ~ 4 cm above position
of sapflow sensors:

Tree Band reading
248
250
72 5.3
77 5.1
79 5.2

Stayed Friday night 5/11/01 at the Jackson-Gold Lodge, (209) 223-0486 -
very comfortable motel that will give us government discount.

Field Data

No tank data

No TZ Well data found

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

No TZ Tree DBH found

Water Potential - mode: raw

TimeSpeciesTreereadings (bar)
2001-05-11 06:00:00 OAK SETP -3.4 0.27 8
2001-05-11 06:00:00 OAK SETQ -2.7 0.64 6
2001-05-11 06:00:00 PINE 78 -5.0
2001-05-11 12:00:00 OAK SETP -20.5 2.28 8
2001-05-11 12:00:00 PINE 78 -13.7 2.83 3

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found

0 photos found

Graphs display:
16 sets found

No data found for TZ_Fenergy.
No data found for TZ_tmet.
No data found for TZ_soilco2.
Can't check TZ_mixed
3 TZ_mixed graphs found

Explore the graph:Tonzi PPT in a new window

Explore the graph:Tonzi CO2 and H2O Densities in a new window

Explore the graph:Air Pressure in a new window

No data found for TZ_fflux.
8 TZ_fmet graphs found

Explore the graph:Soil Heat Flux in a new window

Explore the graph:Tonzi Soil Temperature Set A in a new window

Explore the graph:Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set B in a new window

Explore the graph:Tonzi Soil Temperatures Set C in a new window

Explore the graph:Tonzi Soil Temperature Set D in a new window

Explore the graph:Well Level in a new window

Explore the graph:Well Water Temperature in a new window

Explore the graph:Soil Water Potential in a new window

No data found for TZ_tram.
No data found for TZ_co2prof.
No data found for TZ_irt.
No data found for TZ_windprof.
No data found for TZ_tflux.
2 TZ_sm graphs found

Explore the graph:Floor Solar Radiations in a new window

Explore the graph:TZ Soil Moisture in a new window

Can't check TZ_met
1 TZ_met graphs found

Explore the graph:Floor and Tower RH in a new window

Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for TZ_osu.
No data found for TZ_fd.
Tonzi Z-cam data

plot of Tonzi z-cam LAI

plot of Tonzi z-cam gap fration