DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzjm
title: Great Basin National Park, NV air temperature and relative humidity

description: Hourly air temperature and relative humidity data has been collected from
 a network of 29 data-logging sensors installed within radiation shields
 ~1.5 m above ground level at discrete sites within the Great Basin
 National Park (GBNP), NV, USA from August 2006 to August 2023. The sensors
 are “embedded” – suspended in trees or atop wooden stakes – within diverse
 ecosystem types spanning over 2,000 m of elevation, and are
 maintained/downloaded during annual visitations by collaborating teams of
 students and staff from the Ohio State University, University of Georgia,
 and Sinclair Community College, assisted by GBNP staff.  This
 dataset can be utilized to assess the microclimates and weather patterns
 within the GBNP. The dataset comprises daily mean, maximum, and minimum
 temperature and relative humidity collected between Aug 2006 – Aug 2023.
 Hourly, raw data are available upon request. 
description: A network of
 temperature (°C) and relative humidity
 (%) sensors was established in the Great Basin National Park in
 the summer of 2006. The
 network consists of Lascar EL-USB-2 Temperature and Humidity
 Data Loggers with a typical temperature
 error of ± 0.5°C and typical
 relative humidity error of ± 3%. The internal
 resolution is 0.5°C for the temperature
 and 0.5% for the humidity. The data loggers are
 programed to record hourly data.   The sensors are hung in trees or fastened to posts 1-2m above the ground and are covered with ventilated, solar radiation shields. Data exists for 30 locations in the National Park and nearby town of Baker, NV ranging from 1639 m – 3976 m above sea level. Annual maintenance is required to replace batteries, download the data, and test the data loggers. This dataset includes data from August 2006 to August 2023.  The provided data are the daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperature and humidity values. Daily aggregations were processed to include days with at least 23 observations. Data were filtered to remove outliers before aggregation, but the datasets include days when sensors were covered in snow because such data may be of interest for studying snowpack and related work.  
description: # Great Basin National Park, NV air temperature and relative humidity
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzjm](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzjm) This dataset consists of daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures (°C) and relative humidity (%) for 30 lascar sensors across the Great Basin National Park, NV, USA between Aug 2006 and Aug 2023. This dataset may be used to analyze temperature and humidity trends throughout the park or paired with additional datasets to assess the relationship with ecological or hydrological processes. Daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and humidity values throughout the park have been used to determine trends over the observation period. Sambuco et al. (2021) determined that maximum temperatures increased faster at higher elevations than lower elevations between 2007 and 2018. Warming was exhibited at nearly all locations across the park. Recent work calculates absolute humidity values to assess trends in atmospheric moisture content. Across the park, absolute humidity increased slightly. ## Description of the data and file structure The Sensor\_Information.csv provides details regarding each of the observation sites including the site name and ID, coordinates, and surroundings, and ecosystem type. It also indicates whether the sensor was mounted to a tree, rock, or post while recording the observations. This information is also available in (Sambuco et al. 2020). Temperature and humidity data are available by site ID. Each file contains the available data for the selected site between Aug 2006 and Aug 2023. The date is recorded in the "yearmonthday" column as YYYYmmdd. The elevation in meters is listed under "Alt" and the site ID is indicated under "group". The remaining columns are the daily aggregations: daily mean temperature, daily maximum temperature, daily minimum temperature, daily mean relative humidity, daily maximum relative humidity, and daily minimum relative humidity. All Temperature values are in degrees Celsius (°C) and relative humidity values are percentages. ## Sharing/Access information Hourly, raw data is available upon request. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: * [https://u.osu.edu/gbnpdata/](http://...) Data was derived from the following sources: * Daily mean, maximum, and minimum values were derived from the raw, hourly Lascar data. Outliers in the dataset were removed prior to aggregation. ## Code/Software For additional information regarding the processing of the data, including scripts and code, contact the authors.