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README
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Meteorological Data
Central Sierra Snow Laboratory (CSSL)
University of California, Berkeley
Contact: CSSL (cssl [at] berkeley [dot] edu)
Last updated: 2026-03-04

Data available at: https://csslab.redirectme.net/Meteorological_Data/

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DATA DESCRIPTION
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NOTE: .dat files are the output from our Campbell Scientific loggers but are regular .csv files. To read like a .csv, just change the file extension.

| File Name                             | File Type | Contents
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| 3000mm_Geo_Hz&Prcp.dat                |    csv    | Precipitation accumulation (1-minute) in centimeters and inches from Geonor with single alter shield                  |
| 3000mm_Geo_Prcp_15MinAvg.dat          |    csv    | Precipitation accumulation (15-minute averages) in centimeters and inches from Geonor with single alter shield        |
| 3000mm_Geo_SI111SS.dat                |    csv    | Snow/Soil Surface Temperature (TT_C) and SI-111 Body Temperature (SBT_C) (15-minute obs)                              |
| CSSL_lysimeter_data.csv               |    csv    | Lysimeter water accumulation (mm) (5-minute obs)                                                                      |
| cssl-forest_Forest_cssl_5minute.dat   |    csv    | Snow/Soil surface temperature (TT_C_Avg), snow depth, and temps at various levels at CSSL forest site (5-minute obs)  |
| S2S1_Met_data.dat                     |    csv    | Meteorological and Soil Conditions recorded at main platform (5-minute obs)                                           |
| S2S2_Table1.dat                       |    csv    | Stream height and temperature data for Castle Creek (at CSSL) (1-minute obs)                                          |
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March 4, 2026:
- README file created