Description:	Beginning in 2015, field observations were initiated to quantify crop growth and land-atmosphere energy and water exchanges over agricultural surfaces in the semi-arid south central Saskatchewan prairies. Early research focussed on sites in the Brightwater Creek Research Basin (BWC) near Kenaston, 80 km south of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Tetlock et al., 2019). Additional sites were instrumented in 2018 at the University of Saskatchewan’s Livestock and Forage Centre for Excellence (LFCE) near Clavet, 30 km southeast of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Cumulatively this data collection effort comprises 17 site years for 7 different crop types. This dataset is comprised of micrometeorological, energy balance (radiation and turbulent fluxes), precipitation, soil moisture and crop growth observations aggregated to the daily scale. Stations were located within agricultural fields to satisfy the homogeneity assumptions required for eddy covariance observations and span the interval between planting and harvest. Data gapfilling and QA/QC procedures are described in the associated submitted manuscript.
Authors:	Harder, Phillip; Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan Helgason, Warren; College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan Johnson, Bruce; Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan Pomeroy, John W.; Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan
Keywords:	Land-atmosphere interactions water use efficiency soil moisture evapotranspiration crop growth dryland agriculture
Field of Research:	Agricultural biotechnology and food sciences > Agricultural biotechnology > Biomass feedstock production technologies
Publication Date:	2023-07-21
Publisher:	Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche
Funder:	Canada First Research Excellence Fund: Global Water Futures; Agricultural Water Futures Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; Canada Research Chair in Water Resources And Climate Change; CRC-2016-00144 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; Changing Cold Regions Hydrology; RGPIN-2019-04907
URI:	https://doi.org/10.20383/102.0686
Geographic Coverage:	Place Name Brightwater Creek Research Basin City Saskatoon Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory   Country Canada Place Name University of Saskatchewan’s Livestock and Forage Centre for Excellence City Clavet Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory   Country Canada
Geographic Point:	Latitude 51.387349 Longitude -106.358832 Latitude 51.939772 Longitude -106.449293
Appears in Collections:	Global Water Futures