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    • Daily Rainfall Data (FIFE)

    Metadata Updated: August 29, 2025

    The FIFE Daily Rainfall Data Set contains daily precipitation values for 42 rain gauge stations within the Konza LTER portion of the FIFE site (i.e., Northwest quadrant). The data set is a composite of data collected by the LTER staff and the Princeton University group. The LTER staff collected daily precipitation data from 12 of the 42 rain gauge stations within this area with the Princeton University group collecting 30 minute precipitation data from the remaining 30 stations. LTER data was collected from April 1982 through December 1989. Data collected by the LTER staff was year round for some stations and from April 1 to October 31 for others. The Princeton University group collected data from May 1987 to October 1987. The Princeton University 30 minute precipitation data was converted to daily precipitation data by the FIS staff. At any particular time, data from approximately 20 of the 30 Princeton University stations were recovered. High temperatures and humidity, plus software problems in the rainfall data loggers, resulted in these data losses. The collected data were of high quality and enough gauges were working at all times so that rain cells could be observed using these data.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date August 29, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/29
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-27
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    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 45c64b14-73a5-40cd-af7e-6adea7193d9a
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=fife_sur_met_rain_day_29&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-96.61,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":39.11,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-96.55,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":39.07},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 309bd66b5fe35a5f36a06b8087bd56d77ef32d483b5eef0921cf56663a318d67
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1982-04-27/1982-04-27

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