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    • Daily precipitation from a network of weighing rain gauges on the Jornada Experimental Range (Jornada Basin LTER), 1976-2011.

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2025

    This completed dataset contains daily precipitation measurements from a network of weighing rain gauges (Belfort Universal Precipitation Gauges, Series 5-780) at 58 locations on the Jornada Experimental Range in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA between January 1976 and December 2011. Locations and the dates during which data were collected were generally project-oriented. Temporal coverage per location is quite variable and ranges between 1,647 and 13,024 days. The network was maintained by USDA Agricultural Research Service personnel. After 2011 the remaining weighing rain gauges were replaced by tipping bucket gauges and those data are available separately.


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

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    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025
    Publisher Agricultural Research Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.6073/pasta/3a430d2f1f8c9be35ccb9c6b0a9364d2
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-22
    Public Access Level public
    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 7f851f8d-8526-459e-ac37-fa6f081caef7
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 005:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d759723335925dbf42601c7e7d71c2a60b33938f53d69d072505657124c913f3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 1976-01-02/2011-12-31

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