version of readme:        15-May-2018
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HydroThermal Dynamics Data of Frozen Soils on the Tibetan Plateau during 2015-2016

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### General Introduction #############
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The HydroThermalDynamicsDataofFrozenSoilsofMaquTPMeasuredIn2015-2016 dataset contains four sheets:
- Soil Temperature (oC):  contains the observed values, as well as the simulated values using STEMMUS-FT model with two different hydraulic schemes, of soil temperature profile (5, 10, 20, 40, and 80cm) spanning a time period from 1-Dec.-2015 to 15-Mar.-2016.
- Soil Moisture (cm^3 cm^-3):  contains the observed values, as well as the simulated values using STEMMUS-FT model with two different hydraulic schemes, of soil moisture profile (5, 10, 20, 40, and 80cm) spanning a time period from 1-Dec.-2015 to 15-Mar.-2016.
- Latent Heat Flux(8-12 Dec.):  contains the temporal variations of latent heat flux during the freezing periods.
- Latent Heat Flux(24-29 Feb.):  contains the temporal variations of latent heat flux at the onset of thawing periods. 

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### Soil Hydrothermal measurements ###
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Soil temperature/Soil moisture 
Sensors: EC-TM ECH2O probes 
Company: Decagon Devices, Inc., USA
Link: http://www.decagon.com.br/solos/sensores-umidade/5tm/

Latent Heat Flux 
Sensors: Campbell LI-COR 7500 
Link: https://www.licor.com/env/products/eddy_covariance/LI-7500DS.html

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The dataset provides the spatiotemperal variation field of soil temperature and moisture; furthermore potentially presents the water and heat transfer patterns in frozen soils. 

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We acknowledge the support from the Zoige Plateau Wetland Ecosystem Research Station of CAREERI/CAS.
