Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN): 1984 to Current NTN Annual Data for Vermont

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Metadata Provider

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    Year-round weekly-based monitoring of wet deposition chemistry as part of a national program and to support local studies. Also to establish the precision and accuracy of the collection system. Sites from New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont are included.

People

  • Tim Scherbatskoy: Principal Investigator

  • Carl Waite: Principal Investigator

  • Judy Rosovsky: Content Provider

  • Joanne Cummings: Content Provider

  • Gerry Livingston: Principal Investigator

  • Miriam Pendleton: Content Provider

  • James Duncan: Principal Investigator

Keywords

  • acid deposition, long-term monitoring, nadp, vermont,

Organizations

  • National Atmospheric Deposition Program National Trends Network: lead
  • Vermont Monitoring Cooperative : partner

Geographic Coverage

  • Coordinates

Data Table

  • Title: 1984 to Current NTN Annual Data for Vermont
  • Start Date: 1984-01-01
  • End Date: 2018-01-01
  • Description: Dataset of the parent project National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP/NTN). Contains precipitation-weighted means (PMW) concentrations.

  • Purpose:

  • Condensed Title: Z0019_1984to2015NTN_AnnualData

  • Object Name: VMC.19.2121

  • Data Type: mySQL
  • Citation: Duncan, J., G. Livingston, T. Scherbatskoy, and C. Waite. 2017. 1984 to 2017 NTN Annual Data. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/national-atmospheric-deposition-programnational-trends-network/dataset/1984-to-2015-ntn-annual-data

  • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/national-atmospheric-deposition-programnational-trends-network/dataset/1984-to-2015-ntn-annual-data

Attribute List

    Attribute Name: conduc
    • Label: conduc
    • Storage Type: decimal
    Attribute Name: Criteria1
    • Label: Criteria1
    • Storage Type: int
    Attribute Name: Criteria2
    • Label: Criteria2
    • Storage Type: int
    Attribute Name: Criteria3
    • Label: Criteria3
    • Storage Type: int
    Attribute Name: daysSample
    • Label: daysSample
    • Storage Type: int
    Attribute Name: lastDate
    • Label: lastDate
    • Storage Type: datetime
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: M/D/YYYY hh:mm
    Attribute Name: ppt
    • Label: ppt
    • Storage Type: decimal
    Attribute Name: seas
    • Label: seas
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: siteID
    • Label: siteID
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: svol
    • Label: svol
    • Storage Type: decimal
    Attribute Name: yr
    • Label: yr
    • Storage Type: date
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: YYYY
    Attribute Name: Ca
    • Label: Ca
    • Description: Ca Concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.001
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: Cl
    • Label: Cl
    • Description: Cl concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: Cond
    • Label: Conductivity
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Precision: 0.01
    • Unit: ms/cm
    Attribute Name: Crit1
    • Label: Criteria1
    • Description: Percentage of the summary period for which there are valid samples.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: Crit2
    • Label: Criteria2
    • Description: Percentage of the summary period for which precipitation amounts are available either from the rain gage or from the sample volume
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: Crit3
    • Label: Criteria3
    • Description: Percentage of the total measured precipitation associated with valid samples.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: Crit4
    • Label: Crit4
    • Description: Crit4
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: Days
    • Label: Days_sampled
    • Description: Number of days included in the summary period.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    Attribute Name: EndDate
    • Label: EndDate
    • Description: The ending date of the last sample included in the summary period
    • Storage Type: datetime
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: MM/DD/YYYY
    Attribute Name: FldCond
    • Label: FldCond
    • Description: Field conductivity
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: FldpH
    • Label: FldpH
    • Description: FldpH
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: K
    • Label: K
    • Description: K concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: Mg
    • Label: Mg
    • Description: Mg concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: Na
    • Label: Na
    • Description: Na concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: NH4
    • Label: NH4
    • Description: NH4 concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: NO3
    • Label: NO3
    • Description: N03 Concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: pctPptFChem
    • Label: pctPptFChem
    • Description: pctPptFChem
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: pH
    • Label: pH
    • Description: negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration as measured at the CAL, in pH units
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: Ppt_cm
    • Label: Ppt_cm
    • Description: Total amount of precipitation, in centimeters, measured by the rain gage during the summary period. This value includes precipitation amounts calculated from the sample volumes in cases where the weekly rain gage measurements were unavailable.
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: RatioC-A
    • Label: RatioC-A
    • Description: RatioC-A
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    Attribute Name: SiteID__
    • Label: SiteID
    • Description: Site Identifier
    • Storage Type: text
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: SO4
    • Label: SO4
    • Description: SO4 concentration
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mg/L
    Attribute Name: Svol_ml
    • Label: Svol_ml
    • Description: Total volume, in milliliters, of precipitation collected by the sampler for VALID samples during the summary period.
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • Unit: mm
    Attribute Name: StartDate
    • Label: StartDate
    • Description: StartDate
    • Storage Type: date
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: other
    Attribute Name: ValidSamp_F
    • Label: ValidSamp_F
    • Description: ValidSamp_F
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: ValidSamp_L
    • Label: ValidSamp_L
    • Description: ValidSamp_L
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: nominal
    Attribute Name: Year
    • Label: Year
    • Description: Year
    • Storage Type: datetime
    • Measurment Type: datetime
    • String Format: DD/MM/YYYY
    Attribute Name: Br
    • Label: Br
    • Description: Br concentration, mg/L
    • Storage Type: decimal
    • Measurment Type: ratio
    • String Format: D-M-YY
    • Unit: mg/L
    • Number Type: -1
    Attribute Name: fullChemlab
    • Label: fullChem
    • Description: Number of samples used in calculating the laboratory means. Only VALID samples with complete, valid LABORATORY (CAL) analyses and a valid measurement of precipitation amount (from the rain gage or sample volume) are used.
    • Storage Type: int
    • Measurment Type: interval
    • String Format: D-M-YY
    • Unit: mg/L
    • Number Type: -1

Methods

  • Current Methods
    • Precipitation
      • Started: 1984-01-01
      • Method Description: Continuous precipitation amount. Accumulated weekly wet-only precipitation samples. Measurements include precipitation amount, field pH and conductivity, lab pH and conductivity, Ca, K, Mg, Na, NH4, NO3, Cl, SO4, and PO4.


Sampling Equipment

  • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

Site Characteristics

  • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset