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Title:
Santee Experimental Forest, Watershed 80: streamflow, water chemistry, water table, and weather data
Author(s):
Amatya, Devendra M.; Trettin, Carl C.
Publication Year:
2021
How to Cite:
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Amatya, Devendra M.; Trettin, Carl C. 2021. Santee Experimental Forest, Watershed 80: streamflow, water chemistry, water table, and weather data. Updated 08 April 2024. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0043
Abstract:
This data publication contains streamflow, water chemistry, water table and weather data measured at Watershed 80 (WS80) on the Santee Experimental Forest near Cordesville, South Carolina starting in 1968. Watershed 80 is an approximately 160 hectare first-order control watershed that was established in 1968 as part of a paired watershed system (Watershed 77, established earlier in 1963, was the treatment watershed). Daily streamflow data are provided from 1968-2022, and 10/15-minute streamflow from 2003-2022. Water chemistry data collected, upstream from the WS80 weir, nearly daily are provided from 2004-2022, and approximately weekly water chemistry data are provided from November 1976-1982 and October 1989-1994. Groundwater water table levels were monitored manually approximately weekly from 1992-1995 in a network of 33 non-recording wells, and from 2003-2019 in a network of nine manual wells. Hourly water table levels collected electronically are provided from 2003-2022 at wells D and H. Daily rainfall totals and average air temperatures collected at meteorologic station 25 (Met25) are provided from 1990-2001, and hourly data (including soil temperature) are provided from 2001-2022. Weather data (air and soil temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar and net radiation, etc.) collected at the WS80 tower are provided as 15-minute averages from 2010-2022. Non-recording manual gauge rainfall data collected approximately weekly from 1966-1984 are also provided for multiple gauges in WS80.

Keywords:
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; environment; inlandWaters; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Hydrology, watersheds, sedimentation; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; forested wetlands; forested watersheds; poorly drained soils; outflow (runoff); water quality; automated sampler; Manta multiprobe; Hanna multiprobe; water table; WL15; WL16; pressure transducer; non-recording gauge; precipitation; air temperature; soil temperature; solar radiation; net radiation; photosynthetically active radiation; PAR; wind speed; wind direction; vapor pressure; relative humidity; Santee Experimental Forest; South Carolina; Coastal Plain; Watershed 80
Related publications:
  • Amatya, Devendra M.; Trettin, Carl C. 2007. Development of watershed hydrologic research at Santee Experimental Forest, coastal South Carolina. pp 180-190. In: Furniss, M. (ed.); Clifton, C. (ed.); Ronnenberg, K. (ed.). 2007. Advancing the fundamental sciences: proceedings of the Forest Service National Earth Sciences Conference. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-689, Vol I. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 577 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-689
  • Amatya, Devendra M.; Trettin, Carl C. 2019. Long-term ecohydrologic monitoring: A case study from the Santee Experimental Forest, South Carolina. The Journal of South Carolina Water Resources. 6(1): 46-55. https://doi.org/10.34068/JSCWR.06.05 https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/59583
  • Amatya, Devendra M.; Herbert, Ssegane; Trettin, Carl C.; Hamidi, Mohammad Daud. 2021. Evaluation of paired watershed runoff relationships since recovery from a major hurricane on a coastal forest—A basis for examining effects of Pinus palustris restoration on water yield. Water. 13(21): 3121-. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13213121 https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/63521
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