SGP/SWATS/E4 - Incorrect soil moisture data

The temperature rise readings on both the east and west profiles are too high.  This also 
causes the matric potential and water content data to be incorrect.

For the first, third and fourth date ranges, measurements are incorrect for all sensor 
locations (each depth on both profiles).

For the second date range, measurements are incorrect for the lowest 8 sensor locations 
(the 60cm, 85cm, 125cm, and 175cm depths on both profiles).

• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)

SGP/SWATS/E24 - Bad soil temperature and moisture measurements

During the specified time range, soil temperature measurements ("tsoil") were normal
except for 3 sensors: 5-west, 60-west, 60-east.

• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)

SGP/SWATS/E18 - Incorrect depth dimension

No sensors are installed at the 85cm, 125cm, and 175cm depths. All associated variables 
should be reported as "-9999".  Ignore spurious measurements.

• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)

SGP/SWATS/E24 - Missing data

All soil temperature, soil moisture, and soil-water
potential measurements within the time range are 
missing. Archived files contain no useful data.
Removal of the files from May17'03 to June13'03 from the
archive will be requested.

• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• serial_numbers_E
• lat
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• base_time
• alt
• tref
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• serial_numbers_W
• time_offset
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• depth
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)
• lon

SGP/SWATS/E18 - Sensor failure, 5cm W

The sensor at the 5-cm depth on the West profile reported incorrect temperature rise 
values after the instrument was restarted on June 7, 2003.

• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)

SGP/SWATS/E18 - Intermittent data

There is an erroneous measurement at 2052Z on the 11th. All obs should be disregarded and 
probably should be deleted from the file.

tsoil_W:
From 1007Z on the 7th to 1707Z on the 9th: tsoil_W data is missing or incorrect at the 5cm 
depth. From 1807 on the 9th to 1807 on the 10th, tsoil_W is completely missing and/or 
incorrect. From 1907 on the 10th to 2007 on the 11th, correct tsoil_W data is available 
except for missing data at the 15cm depth.

trise_W:
All trise_W data is incorrect or missing from 1007Z on the 7th to 1807Z on the 10th. From 
1907 on the 10th to 2007 on the 11th, trise_W data is missing at the 15cm depth.

tsoil_E:
From 1007 on the 7th to 1907 on the 9th, trise_E data is missing or incorrect except at 
the 5cm depth. From 2007 on the 9th to 1907 on the 10th, tsoil_E data is missing.

trise_E:
From 1007 on the 7th to 1907 on the 10th, trise_E data is missing or incorrect.

• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)

SGP/SWATS/E5 - Sensor failure, 25cm E

The temperature rise readings from the 25-cm depth on the east profile are incorrect. This 
also causes the matric potential and water content data to be incorrect.

• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)

SGP/SWATS/E27 - Incorrect Soil Moisture Data

The temperature rise readings from all depths on both the east and west profiles (trise_E, 
trise_W) are incorrect. This also causes the matric potential (soilwatpot_E, 
soilwatpot_W) and water content (watcont_E, watcont_W) data to be incorrect.

• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)

• AVHRR satellite images for Darwin from BOM (RAW)(raw)

SGP/SWATS/E19 - Metadata Errors

The latitude, longitude and altitude of the El Reno (E19) site were
incorrectly entered into the ARM database.  The correct location
of the SWATS.E19 instrument is:
   Lat: 35.557N
   Lon: 98.017W
   Alt:    421m

• alt
• lon
• lat

• alt
• lon
• lat

• alt
• lat
• lon

SGP/SWATS/E7 - Missing Data

Data are missing and unrecoverable.

• lon
• time_offset
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• tref
• alt
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• serial_numbers_W
• lat
• serial_numbers_E
• depth
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)
• base_time
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)

SGP/SWATS/E20 - Reprocess: Changed Depth Dimension

The dimension "depth" in the netCDF files was incorrectly reported as 8, and has been 
changed. Newer files with the correct smaller depth dimension do not have extra placeholder 
values and thus are smaller in size.

• depth

SGP/SWATS/E24 - Reprocess: Changed Depth Dimension

The dimension "depth" in the netCDF files was incorrectly reported as 8, and has been 
changed. Newer files with the correct smaller depth dimension do not have extra placeholder 
values and thus are smaller in size.

• depth

SGP/SWATS/E12 - Reprocess: Changed Depth Dimension

The dimension "depth" in the netCDF files was incorrectly reported as 8, and has been 
changed. Newer files with the correct smaller depth dimension do not have extra placeholder 
values and thus are smaller in size.

• depth

SGP/SWATS/E13 - Reprocess: Changed Depth Dimension

The dimension "depth" in the netCDF files was incorrectly reported as 8, and has been 
changed. Newer files with the correct smaller depth dimension do not have extra placeholder 
values and thus are smaller in size.

• depth

SGP/SWATS/E19 - Sensor failure, 60cm E

The 60cm East profile sensor began reporting temperature rise values near 0 C. This 
problem continued until the old profile of sensors was disconnected and the new set of sensors 
was connected. The soil temperature measure was not impacted by this problem.

• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)

SGP/SWATS/E19 - Sensor failure, 125 W

Temperature rise values form the 125 cm West profile sensor began reporting values near 0 
C. This problem continued until the old profile of sensors was disconnected and the new 
set of sensors was connected. The soil temperature measure was not impacted by this problem.

• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)

SGP/SWATS/E27 - Incorrect serial numbers

The wiring at E27 from the Campbell Scientific 229-L sensors is backwards. This issue 
impacts the following variables but does not impact data quality: serial_numbers_W, 
serial_numbers_E.

All serial numbers stored in the serial_numbers_W variable apply to data stored in the 
trise_E and tsoil_E variables, and vice versa.  Thus, the user should be aware that the 
trise_W, trise_E, tsoil_W, and tsoil_E variables actually contain data from the opposite 
profile.

• serial_numbers_E
• serial_numbers_W

SGP/SWATS/E27 - Reprocess: Miscalibration

The wiring at E27 from the Campbell Scientific 229-L sensors is backwards. Matric 
potential and water content data are incorrect due to incorrect calibrations being applied to 
temperature rise sensor data.

• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Soil Water Potential, East Profile(soilwatpot_E)
• Soil Water Potential, West Profile(soilwatpot_W)
• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)

SGP/SWATS/E18 - Unknown

The data for site E18 appears to be incorrect and this fact is not completely indicated by 
QC flags.

• Volumetric Water Content, West Profile(watcont_W)
• Soil Temperature, West Profile(tsoil_W)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, West Profile(trise_W)
• Volumetric Water Content, East Profile(watcont_E)
• Sensor Temperature Rise, East Profile(trise_E)
• tref
• Soil Temperature, East Profile(tsoil_E)