Microbial Processes > Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) Study > Study Details: 7 - Methods - Climatological Information to be Collected

Evaluating Management Impacts on Long-Term Soil Productivity: A Research and National Forest System Cooperative Study

Climatological Information to be Collected

At each location, a recording weather station will be established to monitor the basic climatological parameters of the site. Based on the need to monitor the climate of the site, not the stand, some of the instrumentation will be placed below or above an area maintained in grass 5 to 10 cm tall. This will allow the comparison of data from one year to the next as well as between locations, with minimal effects of the vegetation. The data from the grass system will be used to drive models that calculate the evapotranspiration rate and other microclimate parameters in the forest canopy.

Weather stations will be fenced at 20 feet square, 4 feet high with a gate wideenough to allow a lawnmower to get through.

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