Specifications

TEAM Climate Monitoring Protocol 3.1

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retrieved from the field and converted to a readable format they should be sent to TEAM’s

Technical Director for review. If any problems are identified with the data the site manager will

be informed. Otherwise, data should continue to be recorded and retrieved from the field.

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Once all the checks have been made, the station can be left running autonomously. If the station is

easily reachable also collect daily precipitation from the manual rain gauge (see below).

To ensure minimum disruption in the data stream, the station should be visited at least every month

(two weeks is better) to perform maintenance and collect data.

6.1

Regular maintenance

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Climate Maintenance Log

Maintenance is key to the proper functioning of the climate station. This section describes in detail

maintenance protocols for the different components of the climate station (core area, base tower,

sensors, radiation shield, data logger, power sources). Table 5 E

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a summary of all maintenance activities and their suggested frequency.

All maintenance information will be recorded on the

Climate Maintenance Log

(Appendix A.3). This

data will need to be uploaded to the TEAM portal after being collected via the Data Management Tool

(located in the “myTEAM” area of the website). All maintenance activities need to be scheduled in

advance in the TEAM online Sampling Scheduler (also located in the “myTEAM” area of the website)

before the start of each data collection year.

6.1.1

Core area maintenance

The surface on the core area around the weather station should be covered with short grass or the

natural substrate at the site. This area should be regularly maintained at least every month (preferably

every two weeks) by keeping the grass short (or natural substrate) and free of debris.

If there is a fence surrounding the climate station, it should also be regularly checked for possible

breaches and general integrity. Replace any sections of the fence if they are damaged or start

showing signs of deterioration.

NNoottee:: More instructions about testing the station can be found by watching the

video called “Testing the sensors and data collection program” on the TEAM

portal in the Climate Protocol section

(http://www.teamnetwork.org/en/protocols/climate). Also, see Data RetrieYDO

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for more detailed Lnformation on retrieving data from the data logger.