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Summary
This data set consists of meteorological and hydrological observations
from the 6 Russian stations described in Robock, et al (1995) and
Vinnikov and Yeserkepova (1991) for use in land surface models.

The data set consists of the following meteorological measurements:
saturation deficiency (mb), height of lower cloud layer (km), dew
point temperature ... (C), total cloudiness amount (tenths of total
coverage), lower cloudiness amount (tenths of total coverage), wind
direction, wind velocity (m/sec), total precipitation (mm), air
pressure (mb), soil surface temperature (C), air temperature (C).
Actinometric data comsists of net radiation at the surface (longwave
and shortwave), direct shortwave radiation on a surface perpendicular
to the solar zenith angle, total (direct and diffuse) incoming solar
radiation, albedo of the surface, total and lower cloudiness (tenths
of total coverage). Hydrologic data consists of available soil
moisture, mean snow cover thickness near the station (cm), water
equivalent snow cover thickness (cm), snow covered area (%),
max. water vapor presure on the snow surface (mb), evaporation from
the snow surface during night and daylight (cm), total evaporation
from grasscover surface, precipitation at same time as total
evaporation, total evaporation from surface under vegetation (cm),
freezing depth of soil from surface (cm), snow cover thickness at the
station (cm), melting of snow from the surface (cm), ground
temperature (C), depth and temperature of water table.

Data are freely available from the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank at
in ASCII format:


http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/DOWNLOAD/RUSWET-GRA...

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Link: GET DATA Description: Home Page of the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 58.0

S: 51.0

E: 101.0

W: 40.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: A. Robock, K. Vinnikov, C.A. Schlosser, N.A. Speranskaya Dataset Title: RUSWET-GRASS-6STA-FORCING: Forcing and Validation Data from 6 Russian Stations Dataset Series Name: RUSWET-GRASS-6STA-FORCING: Forcing and Validation Data from 6 Russian Stations Dataset Release Date: 1999 Dataset Release Place: NJ Dataset Publisher: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University Online Resource: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/ruswet.forcing.6sta...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-01-01 Stop Date: 1983-12-31

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EURASIA CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > RUSSIA

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > EVAPORATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD HEIGHT ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ALBEDO ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > NET RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW MELT CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > WATER TABLE TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW DEPTH TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW MELT TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT LAND SURFACE > LAND TEMPERATURE > LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL DEPTH LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

ISO Topic Category

FARMING GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE INLAND WATERS

Platform

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Ancillary Keywords

ACTINOMETRIC DATA DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GLOBAL SOIL MOISTURE DATA BANK RUSSIA RUSWET SATURATION DEFICIENCY SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

RU/GSMDB

Data Center

Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, Department of Environmental Science, Cook College, Rutgers University Data Center URL: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/index.html Dataset ID: Global_Soil_Moisture_Data_Bank Data Center Personnel Name: ALAN ROBOCK Phone: 732-932-9800 x6222 Fax: 732-932-8644 Email: robock at envsci.rutgers.edu Contact Address: Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University 14 College Farm Road City: New Brunswick Province or State: New Jersey Postal Code: 08901-8551 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: ftp Distribution Format: ASCII Fees: Free

Personnel

ALAN ROBOCK Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 732-932-9800 x6222 Fax: 732-932-8644 Email: robock at envsci.rutgers.edu Contact Address: Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University 14 College Farm Road City: New Brunswick Province or State: New Jersey Postal Code: 08901-8551 Country: USA C. ADAM SCHLOSSER Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 301-902-1273 Email: adam at cola.iges.org Contact Address: Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302 City: Calverton Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20705 Country: USA NINA A. SPERANSKAYA Role: INVESTIGATOR Email: ecoshelf at pop3.rcom.ru Contact Address: State Hydrological Institute 23 Line 2 City: St. Petersburg Postal Code: 199053 Country: RUSSIA KONSTANTIN YA. VINNIKOV Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (301) 405-5382 Fax: (301) 314-9482 Email: kostya at atmos.umd.edu Contact Address: Department of Meteorology University of Maryland City: College Park Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20742 Country: USA

Publications/References
Robock, Alan, Konstantin Ya. Vinnikov, C. Adam Schlosser, Nina
A. Speranskaya, and Yongkang Xue, 1995: Use of midlatitude soil
moisture and meteorological observations to validate soil moisture
simulations with biosphere and bucket models. J. Climate, 8,
15-35. Abstract available from
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/robock/robock_pub9.html

Vinnikov, K. Ya. and I. B. Yeserkepova, 1991: Soil moisture: empirical
data and model results. J. Climate, 4, 66-79.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-01-22

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