Harvard Forest

Data Archive

HF165

Barn Tower Meteorological Station at Harvard Forest since 2015

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Data

• hf165-01: 15-minute (preview)

Overview

• Lead: Emery Boose, Mark VanScoy
• Investigators:
• Contact: Information Manager
• Start date: 2015
• End date: 2025
• Status: ongoing. Data updated monthly
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Latitude: +42.53532 degrees
• Longitude: -72.18990 degrees
• Elevation: 351 meter
• Datum: WGS84
• Taxa:
• Release date: 2026
• Language: English
• EML file: knb-lter-hfr.165.22
• DOI: digital object identifier
• EDI: data package
• DataONE: data package
• Related links:
• Fisher Meteorological Station at Harvard Forest since 2001
• Study type: long-term measurement
• Research topic: forest-atmosphere exchange; watershed ecology
• LTER core area: disturbance patterns
• Keywords: climate, meteorology, wind direction, wind speed
• Abstract:

  The Barn Tower (40 m) was installed in 2009 to support meteorological and phenological measurements and to provide a relay point for the Harvard Forest field wireless network. A wind instrument was later installed at the top of the tower to provide continuous measurements of wind speed and direction.

• Methods:

  The wind instrument is an R.M. Young 05103 wind monitor. The instrument is scanned once per second and 15-minute values are calculated and stored by a datalogger. Date-time values indicate the end of each measurement period. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Missing values are indicated by NA. The original instrument was replaced on 6 May 2021.

• Organization: Harvard Forest. 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA. Phone (978) 724-3302. Fax (978) 724-3595.

• Project: The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. (ROR).

• Funding: National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.

• Use: This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.

• License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

• Citation: Boose E, VanScoy M. 2026. Barn Tower Meteorological Station at Harvard Forest since 2015. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF165 (v.22). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b9b70445f5195415b47583ee65e9c795.

Detailed Metadata

hf165-01: 15-minute

1. datetime: date and time at end of sampling period
2. jd: Julian day (unit: nominalDay / missing value: NA)
3. wspd: horizontal scalar wind speed. Average of 1-second measurements. (unit: metersPerSecond / missing value: NA)
4. wres: horizontal resultant vector wind speed. Vector average of 1-second measurements. (unit: metersPerSecond / missing value: NA)
5. wdir: horizontal vector wind direction. Vector average of 1-second measurements. Measured in degrees clockwise from true north. (unit: degree / missing value: NA)
6. wdev: standard deviation of wind direction. Calculated from 1-second measurements using Campbell Scientific equation. (unit: degree / missing value: NA)
7. gspd: gust speed. Maximum of 1-second measurements. (unit: metersPerSecond / missing value: NA)