Workshop materials for the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Site
The Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Site
has a wealth of ecological/environmental data that is being used by the
The International Graduate Summer School on Statistics and Climate Modeling.
There are three sets of GPS 'breadcrumbs' collected on the two trips to the site.
crumbs_forerunner.txt, and
crumbs_60CSX_1.txt,
were collected
at the same time, barring the slight differences in when I turned the units on and off.
They collect samples 'in their own fashion' ... the sample rates are NOT the same.
None of the GPS units were calibrated to a known elevation, so the elevations were coming
from the satellite positioning only.
crumbs_60CSX_2.txt was collected
on the Sunday morning trip during the summer school.
The R function NiwotLTER.R will give you a decent place to
start to read the available data. There is a lot of functionality and bulletproofing
'left as an exercise to the interested reader' ...
The Niwot Ridge LTER site has a LOT of metadata available for those willing
to browse around. If you want to zoom right to the meteorological data,
here is the
link, but I've gotta tell ya ... you'll be missing a lot of useful background information.
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