Field Notes

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Vaira: 2001-07-02 14:52:00 (DOY 183)
Author: Dennis Baldocchi
Others: Ted Hehn

Summary: Fixed and installed soil moisture sensors, soil samples, checked flux system.

Visited Vaira. ~1500.

1. Hot and dry. Surface temp near 50C. Albedo on Par about 25%, low net
radiation.

2. Lots of grasshoppers in the area and hanging around LI-7500. If we get
spikes in data they may be due to grass hoppers.

3. Fixed the soil moistsure sensors, ch 2 and 5. The number 5 ch was open
and blank. Installed sensor number 7 and buried it at about 23 cm. The soil
was very hard and could not go deeper. To the touch the soil felt moist.
Took a few grab samples of soil at about 10 to 20 cm for a general
gravimetric reading.

4. Soil moisture sensor on the Ch 2 was #16. The cord had been chewed some.
We installed sensor number #11. This sensor is installed in the surface
layer.

Readings of soil moisture sensors at 1600 are:
Ch 1: 0.218
Ch 2: 0.107
Ch 3: 0.215
Ch 4: 0.272
Ch 5: 0.271

5. Gravimetric samples are in oven
Sample 1, empty, 108.13, wet and container, 262.03
Sample 2, empty, 109.29, wet and container, 325.59

6. Flux system was operating ok.

7. Battery on cow fence is low.

Field Data

No tank data

No VR 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 VR Tree DBH found

No water potential data found

No VR Grass Biomass data found

No VR OakLeaves Biomass data found

No VR PineNeedles Biomass data found

0 photos found

Graphs display:
9 sets found

16 VR_met graphs found

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2 VR_flux graphs found

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No data found for VR_soilco2.
No data found for VR_pond.
Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for VR_fd.
No data found for VR_processed.
No data found for VR_arable.
No data found for VR_soilvue.