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Description

This data set consists of soil moisture and soil temperature measurements taken during the SnowEx 2021 field campaign. Soil moisture probes were deployed at 9 locations within the Montana Prairie Station study area and monitored soil properties at four different depths (5, 10, 20 and 50 cm).

Product Summary

Platforms
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instruments
SOIL MOISTURE PROBE ,
SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE
Spatial Extent

N: 47.065 S: 47.055 E: -109.946 W: -109.959

Geographic Region
PRAIRIE STATION
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2020-11-05 to 2021-04-02
Concept ID
C3274546913-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
9
Processing Level
2
Science Keywords
Soil Moisture/Water Content ,
Soil Temperature

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Cosh, M., Sproles, E., Palomaki, R., Beck, M., & Mullen, A. (2022). SnowEx21 Prairie Station In Situ Dielectric Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ZTAP7GH76M9Y Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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