## Readme created by:  Bea Gordon (University of Wyoming, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environmnet)
##               06 Sep 2019  Internal Version 0
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## Associated reserach in, Gordon et al. (2019): Field scale quantification of return flow

Readme:

The included files are: Calculated Flow, Calculated_Losses, Calculated_Return_Flows, ET_Not_Interpolated, Precipitation, and GIS Database.
All the data (except GIS) are in tab delimited ASCII files.  GIS data are in standard formats, most site specific information including
soils, meadow delineation, instrumentation, etc. can be found in the site_information file.

	Flow data (Calculated_Flow, Calculated_Losses, Calculated_Return_Flows) were obtained using developed rating curves at each site, where each stilling well was instrumented with a pressure transducer 
	(Level TROLL 500 Data Logger, In-Situ, USA) and manual flow measurements consisting of 25+ individual points for each measurement were made 
	using an electromagnetic current meter (MF Pro, OTT Hydromet, USA).

	ET data include both measurements from a Large Aperture Scintillometer (LAS MKII, Kipp & Zonen, NLD) and from Penman-Monteith Calculations performed on
	raw meteorological data collected on site.  For Penman-Monteith, we include both raw values and values modified using a crop coefficient from Pochop et al. (1992).

	Precipitation data were collected using a tipping bucket rain gauge (Rain Collector II, Davis Instruments, USA).

 All data (except the ET data for the scintillometer) are from May 2015 to October 2015; the ET data from the scintillometer are from June 2015 to October 2015.


If you have any questions, or would like raw flow data or unprocessed meterological data, please contact me via email at: blgordon@stanford.edu


Version 1.0:

First public release of dataset