Effects of fuels reduction treatments on the soil temperature, heat-flux, water content, and CO2 at Manitou Experimental Forest

Research Data Product File Index

File Folder Description
_metadata_RDS-2007-0002.html   Metadata file in HTML format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.
_metadata_RDS-2007-0002.xml   Metadata file in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format containing a description of the content, quality, and other characteristics of the data.

Manitou-Repx-year-datatype-v2.csv

\Data Comma-delimited ASCII text files containing 2001-2006 profiles of temperature, heat-flux, water content, and CO2 at different depths in the soil and a horizontal transect surface radiation.

where:
x = rep number
year = 2001, 2002, ..., 2006
datatype = type of data collected and how frequently it was measured
(15 files in all)

Manitou-Repx-year-datatype-v2.xls

\Data

Microsoft Excel 2002 files containing 2001-2006 profiles of temperature, heat-flux, water content, and CO2 at different depths in the soil and a horizontal transect surface radiation.

(Data were archived in this format as well simply because of the number of variables in the dataset and length of variable names necessary to properly identify them, which is simpler to view and use if access to Excel is possible)

where:
x = rep number
year = 2001, 2002, ..., 2006
datatype = type of data collected and how frequently it was measured
(15 files in all)

Authors-year-type-title.pdf

\Supplements Adobe Acrobat PDF files that are important to this data product.

where:
Authors = authors of document or poster
year = year document or poster was created or published
title = document or poster title
(8 files in all)

All of these files are referenced in the metadata file.

year-julday-#photographerno-description.jpg

\Supplements\Photographs\year-julday-Repx

Photographs taken during the Fire Experiment in JPEG format.

where:
year = year photograph was taken
julday = julian day photograph was taken
x = rep number
photographer = name of photographer
no = photograph number
description = short description of photograph
(900 files in all)

Manitou-Repx-years-QAQC Version ver - type.pdf

\Supplements\QAQC Adobe Acrobat PDF files that explain Quality Assurance/Quality Control checks applied to the data.

where:
x = rep number
years = list of years included (2001, 2002, ..., 2006)
ver = QA/QC version
type = type of data processed
(5 files in all)

readme.txt \Supplements\Video ASCII text file that describes how to view the video (see below).

Video_TS

\Supplements\Video

Video titled "Fire, fuel treatments, and ecological restoration". It is a video of the Fire Experiment at the Manitou Experimental Forest, and was generated in 2002.