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Great Plains Irrigation Experiment

Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems, Global Water & Energy Cycle

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The Campaign

The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX) was a field campaign that examined the effects of rapid onset and sustained irrigation on the evolution of the planetary boundary layer. It involved a single deployment in southeastern Nebraska during the summer of 2018. Several field sites were set up across irrigated and non-irrigated areas to collect soil properties, radiation, and meteorological parameters measurements. The NASA Twin Otter aircraft was equipped with the Goddard Radio Frequency Explorer (GREX) radiometer to measure soil moisture. GRAINEX was funded by NSF and NASA.

2018-05-29 — 2018-07-30

Southeastern Nebraska
boreal summer, warm

N: 42°N

S: 39°N

W: 98°W

E: 95°W

Additional Notes

Repositories

LAND USE LAND COVER CHANGE
IRRIGATION
LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION
BOUNDARY LAYER
SOIL PROPERTIES
SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE
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Events

1 Deployment
2 IOPs
20192020
NSF, NASA
NASA Science Utilization of SMAP Program
Jared Entin
Rezaul Mahmood, Udaysankar Nair, Eric Rappin, Roger A. Pielke, William Brown
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data center outside NASA
NASA, NCAR