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    • <b>Data from: ‘Field measurement of wind erosion flux and soil erodibility factors as affected by tillage and seasonal drought’</b>

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    There are very few reports in the literature with field measurements of wind erosion flux associated with different forms of tillage management. Measurements of wind erosion flux were conducted to quantify the effects of soil tillage disturbance on wind erosion at a site in south central North Dakota USA in 2003 and 2004. The study was conducted on the Area IV Soil Conservation Districts Research Farm. The study site consisted of gently rolling topography (0-3%) with Temvik-Wilton silt loam soils (USDA: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive frigid Typic and Pachic Haplustolls). Three tillage treatments were included in the study: no-tillage (NT), an intermediate level of disturbance, one-pass tandem disk tillage (TDT), and a heavier level of disturbance, two-pass offset disk tillage (ODT). Erosion flux was measured with sediment samplers of the Big Spring Number Eight type from May through September each year. Sediment samplers were positioned near the peripheries of plots and captured soil flux between 5 and 10 cm height. Vertical flux profile was determined by stacked sediment samplers capturing flux at five heights between 5 and 100 cm. Measurements were applied to soil wind erodibility factors, including multiple within-season determinations of prostrate residue coverage (including live material) by marked cable technique, standing residue by photographic means, soil surface roughness by chain method, and twice per season determinations of aggregate size distribution by compact rotary sieve. Data associated with this study should be of interest to soil conservationists, soil scientists, earth scientists, agronomists and others interested in the increased erosion hazards occurring as result of global climate change. Data are generally applicable to croplands under a semiarid Continental climate for the following soil types: Grassna, Linton, Mandan, Temvik, Williams, and Wilton.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

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    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Agricultural Research Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.15482/USDA.ADC/25225919.v1
    Data Last Modified 2024-02-26
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 005:18
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 9c592287-4dea-4980-999d-4fcd92f2c666
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial {"type": "Point", "coordinates": -100.9377, 46.7716}
    Program Code 005:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c0279d55271acb9234314e919a4bf4cf97006903701c6cb78c7ccb59d42243a4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Point", "coordinates": -100.9377, 46.7716}
    Temporal 2003-01-01/2004-12-31

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