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Long-Term Agricultural Research (LTAR) network - Meteorological Collection

Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

The LTAR network maintains stations for standard meteorological measurements including, generally, air temperature and humidity, shortwave (solar) irradiance, longwave (thermal) radiation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, and precipitation. Many sites also have extensive comparable legacy datasets. The LTAR scientific community decided that these needed to be made available to the public using a single web source in a consistent manner. To that purpose, each site sent data on a regular schedule, as frequently as hourly, to the National Agricultural Library, which has developed a web service to provide the data to the public in tabular or graphical form. This archive of the LTAR legacy database exports contains meteorological data through April 30, 2021. For current meteorological data, visit the GeoEvent Meteorology Resources page, which provides tools and dashboards to view and access data from the 18 LTAR sites across the United States. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Meteorological data. File Name: ltar_archive_DB.zipResource Description: This is an export of the meteorological data collected by LTAR sites and ingested by the NAL LTAR application. This export consists of an SQL schema definition file for creating database tables and the data itself. The data is provided in two formats: SQL insert statements (.sql) and CSV files (.csv). Please use the format most convenient for you. Note that the SQL insert statements take much longer to run since each row is an individual insert. Description of zip files The ltararchive*.zip files contain database exports. The schema is a .sql file; the data is exported as both SQL inserts and CSV for convenience. There is a README in markdown and PDF in the zips. Contains the database export of the schema and data for the site, site_station, and met tables as SQL insert statements. ltar_archive_db_sql_export_20201231.zip --> has data until 2020-12-31 ltar_archive_db_sql_export_20210430.zip --> has data until 2021-04-30 Contains the database export of the schema and data for the site, site_station, and met tables as CSV. ltar_archive_db_csv_export_20201231.zip --> has data until 2020-12-31 ltar_archive_db_csv_export_20210430.zip --> has data until 2021-04-30 Contains the raw CSV files that were sent to NAL from the LTAR sites/stations. ltar_rawcsv_archive.zip --> has data until 2021-04-30

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

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Dates

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

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
Publisher Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer
Identifier 10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503868
Data Last Modified 2023-11-30
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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