Weather Station data

weather station location at UA
On December 19, 2017, we installed a weather station on top of Gordon Palmer Hall at the University of Alabama ( 33°12'39.44"N,  87°32'32.08"W). As part of Sontosh Deb's PhD project we installed a tripod ~2 meters above the building. The tripod is ~5 meters from the nearest part of the building which exceeds it height (to the east).  The other directions have fully unobstructed flow for 100's of meters. 

​​We mounted sensors for: 
  1. photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, LI-190, LI-COR Inc., Lincoln, NE),
  2. global radiation (Rs LI-200SZ, LI-COR Inc., Lincoln, NE),
  3. precipitation (TE525 Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge, Texas Electronics, Dallas, TX),
  4. wind direction and velocity (Model 05103-5, R.M. Young, Traverse City, MI),
  5. air temperature (Tair) and relative humidity (HMP45C, Campbell Scientific, Logan, UT), and
  6. barometric pressure (PTB110, Vaisala, Helsinki, Finland).
UA data for 12/20/2017 (10:00 AM) thru 8/9/2018 (12:15 PM)  taken at 15 minute intervals has been checked for quality. However, we experienced a data outage from May 25-June 22, 2018, and  November 23-December 11, 2018 due to equipment failures. NOTE: Data collected while battery voltage <10 is not reliable.
ua_raw_weather_data_21dec2017-24oct2019.xlsx
weather station location at Tanglewood
On May 8, 2018, we installed an identically instrumented weather station at the University of Alabama's Tanglewood Biological Station, near Moundville (32.854635, -87.670948), which is in a matrix of second growth forests and agricultural fields.
Due to equipment failures, data are missing from October 5,2018- December 27, 2018, and June 6- June 30, 2019. NOTE: Data collected while battery voltage <10 is not reliable.​
​tanglewood_raw_8may2018-13oct2019.xlsx
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Urban and peri-urban tree diversity

In conjunction with a manuscript recently accepted at Ecosphere, which describes methods for comparing diversity using disparate data sources, data and R code is available here describing tree diversity in urban and adjacent peri-urban areas in the southeast US:
urbgnv.csv
​fiagnv.csv
fiaurball.csv
fiaurball-ba.csv
speciesdist.csv
speciesdist-ba.csv
speciesdistenv.csv​