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Regional Hydroclimate Project:

CEOP_AP
formerly known as CAMP (CEOP Asian Monsoon Project)

Reference Site Name:

Tongyu

Station Name:

Grassland

Other Stations at Reference Site:

Cropland

Contact Information:

Name:Liu Huizhi
Affiliation:
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Address:
Beijing 100029, China
E-mail: huizhil@mail.iap.ac.cn
Telephone: +86-10-82083809
Fax: +86-10-62041393

Associated Web Sites:

• MAHASRI Home Page

Station Location, Maps and Google Earth Files:

Latitude : 44.416 N
Longitude : 122.867 E
Elevation : 184.0m a.s.l.

Regional and Area Maps (click for full resolution):



Google Earth .kmz file of Tongyu Reference Site stations

Station Description:

General Description:

The field experiment of energy and mass exchange process between the land and atmosphere in semi-arid area, northeast china.

Station Operator: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Vegetation and Land Use:

Dominant land cover at the measurement location: Degraded grassland

Canopy height: Less than 10 cm (in the winter period less than 5 cm)

Density of Canopy: No information.

Land cover within 50 m of site: No information.

Land cover within 500 m of site: No information.

Land cover within 12 km of site: No information.

Seasonal land cover changes: No information.

Major changes in land cover at site from October 2002 to December 2004: No information.

Slope at the site: No information.

Other notes: None

Soil Type and Characterization:

Surface soil type: salina soil,meadow soil, light chernozem

Soil type in deeper layers: No information.

Surface soil porosity: No information.

Soil porosity in deeper layers: No information.

Soil infiltration rate: No information.

Bulk Dry Density: No information.

Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: No information.

The Soil Reference Group(s) (from World Reference Base for Soil Resources): No information.

Climate:

No information.

CEOP Parameters Measured and Instrumentation:

SURFACE METEOROLOGY AND RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:
• Station pressure - 1.5 m Texas Elect CS105
• Air Temperature - 1.35 m Vaisala HMP
• Dew point - 1.35 m derived.
• Relative humidity - 1.35 m derived.
• Specific humidity - 1.35 m Vaisala 45C_L.
• Wind speed - 17.46 m Met One 034A_L
• Wind direction - 17.46 m Met One 014A_L
• U wind component - 17.46 m derived.
• V wind component - 17.46 m derived.
• Precipitation - 1.0 m Texas Elect TE525MM_L
• Snow depth - Not measured.
• Incoming shortwave radiation - 2.0 m Kipp and Zonen CM21
• Outgoing shortwave radiation - 2.0 m Kipp and Zonen CM21
• Incoming longwave radiation - 2.0 m Kipp and Zonen CG4
• Outgoing longwave radiation - 2.0 m Kipp and Zonen CG4
• Net radiation 2.0 m derived.
• Skin temperature - 1.5 m Apogee IRTSD-P.
• Incoming Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) - Not measured.
• Outgoing Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) - Not measured.

METEOROLOGICAL TOWER INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:

• Station pressure - 1.5 m Texas Elect CS105
• Air Temperature - 1.35, 3.95, 7.95, 12.45, and 17.05 m Vaisala HMP
• Dew point - 1.35, 3.95, 7.95, 12.45, and 17.05 m derived.
• Relative humidity - 1.35, 3.95, 7.95, 12.45, and 17.05 m derived.
• Specific humidity - 1.35, 3.95, 7.95, 12.45, and 17.05 m Vaisala 45C_L.
• Wind speed - 1.76, 4.36, 8.36, 12.86, and 17.46 m Met One 034A_L
• Wind direction - 17.46 m Met One 014A_L
• U wind component - 17.46 m derived.
• V wind component - 17.46 m derived.

Grassland Tower (click for full resolution):



FLUX INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION: The eddy covariance technique is utilized.

• Sensible heat flux - 2.0 m Campbell LI-COR CS7500
• Latent Heat flux - 2.0 m Campbell FW05
• CO2 Flux - 2.0 m Campbell CSAT3
• Soil heat flux - 10 cm depth Hukseflux HFP01SC_L50

Grassland Flux Tower (click for full resolution):



SOIL INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:

• Soil temperature - 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 80 cm depths Hukseflux STP01_L50
• Soil moisture - 5, 10, 20, and 80 cm depths Campbell CS616_L

RADIOSONDE INSTRUMENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:

No data of this type available at this station.

Site References

Web:
None provided.

Literature:

None provided.

Presentations:

• MAHASRI (13 March 2007; Washington, DC, USA)
• Introduction to CAMP Quality Control Data System (27 February 2006; Paris, France)
• GAME/CAMP (10 March 2004; Irvine, California, USA)
• GAME/CAMP (02 April 2003; Berlin, Germany)
• CAMP Inner Mongolia 31 March 2003; Berlin Germany)
• CAMP Inner Mongolia (6 March 2002; Tokyo, Japan)

Data Sets and Documentation:

• EOP-3/4 and beyond Data Sets and Documentation
• Surface Meteorological Data: Current Status and Browse Plots
• Soil Temperature and Moisture Data: Current Status and Browse Plots
• Flux Data: Current Status and Browse Plots
• Meteorological Tower Data: Current Status and Browse Plots
• EOP-1 Converted Format Data Sets and Documentation
• EOP-1 Native Format Data Sets and Documentation