NAFE 2005

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NAFE 2005 CS616 and Meteorological data T.Wells,
C. Martinez, G. Hancock and J.D.Kalma

• Plan of talk
• Overview of the collected and missing data
• Data/calibration issues
• Data examples.

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1. NAFE/SASMAS Site data Overview. 26 SASMAS
sites in total 16 directly involved with
NAFE Data collected at NAFE/SASMAS sites Soil
Moisture (20min) 0-50mm Hydraprobe 0-300m
m, 300-600mm, 600-900mm CS616 Soil
Temperature (20min) 0-50 mm Thermistor 0-300
mm T107 Rainfall (0.2mm, timed to
second) Tipping bucket raingauge Radiation,
Air T, humidity, wind speed, added soil T
(20min) K6, S2 weather stns

• Majority of data was successfully collected over
  the 31st Oct to 30th Nov period
• 100 of available data collected at 9 sites
• Data awaiting final data collection (this
  week) at 2 sites
• Data lost due to mechanical failure at 5 sites

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i.e. collected all data from Stanley weather
station but none from Spring Hill over the NAFE
campaign period due to logger failure
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2. Data/calibration Issues.
a. Relay failures.

• Relays were installed to allow sampling of
  Hydraprobe data
• Relay failures at 8 sites (usually 3 to 7 days
  after installation)
• ? K1,K2,M1- (fixed) and K5, M4, M6, M7, G1 to
  be fixed
• Relay operation at G2-G6 will be assessed in the
  next few weeks.
• Faulty relays will either replaced or repaired
  over next 2 months

b. Battery failures

• 12V battery failures at Illogan, Roscommon and
  Spring Hill
• Cause additional load due to installation of
  Hydraprobe, relay and telemetry
• Solution upgrading of solar panels and
  replacing batteries (done).
• Sites are now functioning normally

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2. Data/calibration Issues (cont).
c. Increased data traffic

• Installation of Hydraprobes and rain gauges
• -gt increased data collection rate 2
• Reducing data logger storage capacity from 65
  days to 35 days
• Solution
• 8 sites gt upgraded data 2Mb loggers
• 13 sites with telemetry,
• 5 sites to be further assessed for telemetry
  with directional antennae
• Installing of telemetry and 2Mb data loggers
  underway (1/2 completed).

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2. Data/calibration Issues (cont).
d. Data Processing.

• All available SASMAS data for 2005 has been
  processed.
• Processing of Hydraprobe data awkward esp. when
  data is intermittent
• Will chase up Hydraprobe manufacturer for maths
  to input directly into XL
• Processed data now includes Chris R.s new CS616
  calibration equations.
• Have assumed that deeper probes at each site
  share the same calibration equation
• Data will be available on SASMAS website in next
  few weeks.

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2. Data/calibration Issues (cont).
e. Calibration

• Several sites do not have separate calibration
  equations for 0-300mm CS616 probes (K1, K4, S5,
  S7)
• Equations for deeper probes v. limited
• Program of taking routinely 300mm soil cores at
  random sites during download field trips has
  commenced to check calibration equations.
• Are the remaining (0-300mm) calibrations to be
  done in Newcastle or Melbourne?
• Calibrations for deeper probes?

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3. Data examples T variation Cullingral (M2)
over NAFE period.
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3. Data examples Variation of near surface
moisture. S1-Stanley M2-Cullingral
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3. Data examples Spatial variation of rainfall
along
Merriwa Catchment
Midlothian
M5
Merriwa park
M3
Cullingral
M2