Table 3 Description of the measurements, including information on which variables are collected at each station, variable abbreviations and units.

From: Six years of high-resolution climatic data collected along an elevation gradient in the Italian Alps

MEASUREMENT

MEASUREMENT STATION

Name

Abbreviation

Unit

Sample Aggregation*

B1 983 m

B2^ 1473 m

P2 1541 m

B3 1922 m

S4 2404 m

S3 2705 m

Temperature, air

TTT

°C

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Humidity, relative

RH

%

Average/sample**

X

 

X

X

X

X

Wind speed

ff

m/s

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Wind direction

dd

deg

Average/sample***

X

 

X

X

X

X

Short-wave downward (GLOBAL) radiation

SWD

W/m2

Average

 

X

 

X

X

X

Precipitation

Precip

mm

Total

X

X

X

X

X

 

Snow height

Snow h

m

Average/sample****

X

  

X

X

X

Temperature, soil (−0.02 m)

T soil (−0.02 m)

°C

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Temperature, soil (−0.05 m)

T soil (−0.05 m)

°C

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Temperature, soil (−0.20 m)

T soil (−0.20 m)

°C

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Soil water content, volumetric (−0.02 m)

vol SWC (−0.02 m)

m3/m3

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Soil water content, volumetric (−0.05 m)

vol SWC (−0.05 m)

m3/m3

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Soil water content, volumetric (−0.20 m)

vol SWC (−0.20 m)

m3/m3

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Soil water potential (−0.05 m)

Psi Soil (−0.05 m)

kPa

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

Soil water potential (−0.20 m)

Psi Soil (−0.20 m)

kPa

Average

X

 

X

X

X

X

* Aggregation method:

Sample

The last of 15 samples is logged

 

Average

The average of 15 samples is logged

 

Totalize

The sum of 15 samples is logged

 Exceptions^^

Station

Sample Aggregation

Average Aggregation

**RH

P2

Until 2017‐06‐01 09:45

from 2017-06-01 10:00

 

B3

Until 2017‐06‐13 10:45

from 2017-06-13 11:00

***dd

B1

Until 2021‐08‐25 16:00

from 2021-08-25 16:15

 

P2

Until 2021‐03‐19 18:30

from 2021-03-19 18:45

 

B3

From 2017‐06‐15 16:15 to 2021‐08‐05 12:45

until 2017-06-15 16:00 & from 2021-08-05 13:00

 

S4

Until 2021‐08‐06 17:45

from 2021-08-06 18:00

 

S3

Until 2021‐08‐07 09:45

from 2021-08-07 10:00

****Snow h

S4

from 2017-09-26 06:45

Until 2017‐09‐26 06:30

 

S3

from 2017-03-08 10:45

Until 2017‐03‐08 10:30

  1. Information on sample aggregation is provided for each measurement. We adopted the variable names, the corresponding abbreviations, and the units of measurement used by the Pangaea repository.
  2. * Sampling period: 1 min; Aggregation and logging period: 15 min. ^^Exceptions: measurements aggregated with different methods in different periods.
  3. ^ Complementary station for P2 (installed 450 meters away).
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