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Billa Billa Fallow Management Experiment, Queensland, Austrailia

Entry ID: QWRI.BillaBilla

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Summary

Abstract: The Billa Billa Folow Management Experiment was initiated in 1983. The soil
parent material at the site consists of cretaceous sediments (lithic
sandstone). The native vegetation was cleared in 1971. The Site was cropped
annually to wheat from this time until experiment commenced in November 1983.
The native vegetation was belah (Casuarina cristata) open forest with some
brigalow (Acacia ...

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Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: This url links to the GCTE-SOMNET home page where additional project
information can be obtained. This site is currently in a datasharing phase of
the network where actual data will become available shortly, at different
levels of accessibility. Please follow this Link for more information.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -28.14	S: -28.18	E: 150.27	W: 150.23

Min Depth: SURFACE Max Depth: 150

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Gregory A. Thomas

Dataset Title: Billa Billa Fallow Management Experiment

Online Resource: http://saffron.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/somnet-expts

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2004-01-01

Stop Date: 2010-06-30

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN > Austfonna

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Project

GLACIODYN > The dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

Ancillary Keywords

near-surface ice temperature

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Data Center URL: http://www.geo.uio.no/

Data Center Personnel
Name: THOMAS VIKHAMAR SCHULER Phone: +47 22 85 59 28 Email: t.v.schuler at geo.uio.no Contact Address: University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences Postboks 1047 Blindern City: Oslo Postal Code: 0316 Country: Norway