EOS Land Validation Core Site #24:
Park Falls
Land Cover at Core Site, draped over elevation. Vertical
Exaggeration = .00072
Sun Azimuth = Southeast, at 135° Sun Altitude
= Low, at 29.02°
Summary
Reference
Land Cover
Percent Tree Cover
Biomes
Elevation
Soils
Climate
In Situ Measurements
Population
Data Sets
The Wisconsin-Park Falls LTER is located within the
Northern Highland Lakes District of Wisconsin in the United States.
The majority of this site's research is conducted at the Center for Limnology's
Trout Lakes Station, spanning a 10km radius. Their research goals
are to perceive long-term trends in physical, chemical and biological properties
of lake ecosystems, to understand the dynamics of internal and external
processes affecting lake ecosystems, to analyze the temporal responses
of lake ecosystems to disturbance and stress, to evaluate the interaction
between spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of lake ecosystems,
and to expand our understanding of lake-ecosystem properties to a broader,
regional context. Their research shows a focus on global climate change,
expanding the evaluations of microbial processes, and making more detailed
assessments of land-water interactions.
The Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study is another
project at Park Falls spanning 14,000 square kilometers, unrelated to the
Center of Limnology. The purpose of their research is to provide
a more efficient set of verification and supporting measurements for ASTER
and MODIS products through the study of emissivity, land-surface temperature,
and other variables.
This information was gathered from http://limnosun.limnology.wisc.edu/
and http://ra.forest.wisc.edu/cheas/index.html.
| Site Name: | Wisconsin-Park Falls |
| Site Number: | 24 |
| Reference Map: | Map |
| Latitude: | 45.94 |
| Longitude: | 90.27 |
| Country: | United States |
| Administrative Unit: | Wisconsin |
| Affiliations: | LTER, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Contact: | Stith Gower
Dept. of Forest Ecology & Management 1630 Linden Drive University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 stgower@facstaff.wisc.edu http://limnosun.limnology.wisc.edu/ http://ra.forest.wisc.edu/cheas/index.html |
Area Tree Cover Map
BIOME LEVEL GENERALIZED LAND COVER
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Site Point Biome: Broadleaf Forest
Area Biome
Map
Area Biome Percentages Pie
Chart
ELEVATION
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| Site Elevation: | 481 meters |
| Elevation Map | Map |
| Mean Area Elevation: | 342 meters |
| Minimum Area Elevation: | 183 meters |
| Maximum Area Elevation: | 670 meters |
| Mean Area Slope: | 73.126° |
| Area Slope Geary Coefficient: | 0.006 |
| Area Mean Aspect: | 151.351 |
SOILS
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Site Point Major Soils Type: (29) ferric podzols
Soils Map
| Value | Major Type | Area % | Water Regime |
| 28 | haplic podzols | 0.1 | percolative |
| 29 | ferric podzols | 28.9 | percolative |
| 38 | albic luvisols | 50.9 | percolative with stagnation |
| 47 | dystric histosols | 0.8 | periodically non-percolative |
| 53 | Chernozem-like prairie | 0.5 | non-percolative |
1985-1992 CLIMATE MEANS
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| Minimum Mean January Precipitation: | 0.63 mm |
| Maximum Mean January Precipitation: | 1.50 mm |
| Mean January Precipitation: | 0.99 mm |
| Minimum Mean July Precipitation: | 1.36 mm |
| Maximum Mean July Precipitation: | 4.30 mm |
| Mean July Precipitation: | 2.64 mm |
| Minimum Mean January Temperature: | -15.49° C |
| Maximum Mean January Temperature: | -7.73° C |
| Mean January Temperature: | -11.17° C |
| Minimum Mean July Temperature: | 10.84° C |
| Maximum Mean July Temperature: | 21.31° C |
| Mean July Temperature: | 16.60° C |
| Instruments: | Observations: | Intervals: |
| sun photometer on WLEF tower | - | in use from 1998-2000 |
POPULATION
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| Population Map: | Map |
| Site Population per Square Mile: | 4 |
| Mean Area Population per Square Mile: | 13.68 |
Data Sets
Further information regarding the generation of these materials.
Access Characterizations Spreadsheet, GeoTIFFs & Grid files on CD-ROM
(In the 'eos_data' folder of the CD-ROM, available at the GLCF)
Access Core Site Characterizations Statistics Spreadsheet via FTP
(Single MS Excel 97 file containing statistics for all Core Sites)
Access Characterization Layer GeoTIFFs and Grid files at the
UMD
GLCF
(GeoTIFFs and Grid export files derived from data listed above; via FTP)
Access Legend Code information for the Characterization Layer data sets
Access In Situ Field Measurements via the ORNL
DAAC Mercury System
(Detailed measurement and instrument information)
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