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  "bureauCode": [
    "005:18"
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  "contactPoint": {
    "fn": "Hoover, David",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:David.Hoover@usda.gov"
  },
  "description": "<p>This dataset contains growing season precipitation data collected from an extensive rain gauge network with thirty catch cans distributed on the USDA-Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) in Nunn, Colorado from 1982-2013. The CPER is a site in the USDA Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network.  These data provide records of long-term observations, which can be applied to assess responses to naturally occurring deluges across the 62.7 km2 CPER in NE Colorado, a SGS ecosystem with significant spatial variation in precipitation received during the growing season, soils and grazing management, and where several small-scale deluge experiments have been conducted.   </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Raw Precipitation Data .</p> <p>File Name: PrecipitationData_1982_2013_Raw.csv</p><p>Resource Description: Raw Precipitation Data from thirty catch can gauges on the Central Plains Experimental Range</p></li><br><li><p>Resource Title: Processed precipitation data to identify deluges.</p> <p>File Name: PrecipitationData_Processed.csv</p><p>Resource Description:  Processed precipitation data to identify deluges on the Central Plain Experimental Range</p></li><br><li><p>Resource Title: Data Dictionary for raw and processed data.</p> <p>File Name: DataDictionary_PrecipitationData_Raw_Processed_CPER.csv</p><p>Resource Description: Data dictionary for processed precipitation data to identify deluges and for raw precipitation data from thirty catch can gauges on the Central Plains Experimental Range.\n</p></li></ul><p></p>",
  "distribution": [
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      "format": "csv",
      "mediaType": "application/csv",
      "title": "PrecipitationData_1982_2013_Raw.csv"
    },
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      "format": "csv",
      "mediaType": "text/plain",
      "title": "PrecipitationData_Processed.csv"
    },
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      "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
      "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/44529734",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediaType": "application/csv",
      "title": "DataDictionary_PrecipitationData_Raw_Processed_CPER_0.csv"
    }
  ],
  "identifier": "10.15482/USDA.ADC/1522610",
  "keyword": [
    "ARS",
    "EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > GRASSLANDS",
    "Grasslands",
    "NP215",
    "Precipitation",
    "annual precipitation",
    "data.gov",
    "deluge"
  ],
  "license": "https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/",
  "modified": "2025-11-21",
  "programCode": [
    "005:040"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "Agricultural Research Service"
  },
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  "temporal": "1983-05-01/2013-09-30",
  "title": "Semiarid grasslands and extreme precipitation events: Do experimental results scale to the landscape?"
}