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Ag Data Commons migration begins October 18, 2023

The Ag Data Commons is migrating to a new platform – an institutional portal on Figshare. Starting October 18 the current system will be available for search and download only. Submissions will resume after the launch of our portal on Figshare in November. Stay tuned for details!

Natural Resources Conservation Service Locator Map for Block Diagrams

    The Natural Resources Conservation Service Locator Map for Block Diagrams contains more than 3,750 block diagrams (line drawings) from published soil surveys. Most of the diagrams relate soils to landscape positions. Each point on the interactive map indicates the location of a soil survey area for which a block diagram is available online.

    Data from: Six years of ecosystem-atmosphere greenhouse gas fluxes measured in a sub-boreal forest

      Continuous tower-based measurements of the ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of CO2 and CH4 are presented, recorded over the period 2012–2018 and reported at a 30-minute time step at a sub-boreal forest in the northeastern United States. Additionally, we describe a five-year (2012–2016) dataset of chamber-based measurements of soil fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O (2013–2016 only), conducted each year from May to November. These data can be used for process studies, for biogeochemical and land surface model validation and benchmarking, and for regional-to-global upscaling and budgeting analyses.

      LandPKS (Land Potential Knowledge System): Mobile App for Extension, Land-Use and Project Planning, M&E and On-Farm Research

        **LandPKS** comprises a free modular mobile phone app connected to cloud-based storage, global databases, and models, downloadable from Google Play or the iTunes App Store; a system for storing and accessing user data; and a system for sharing data, information and knowledge. LandPKS is being developed to help users determine the sustainable potential of their land, including its restoration potential, based on its unique soil, topography and climate. The land potential assessments will be updated based on new evidence regarding the success or failure of new management and restoration systems on different soils.

        GOSSYM

          GOSSYM is a dynamic, process-level simulation model of cotton growth and yield. GOSSYM essentially is a materials balance model which keeps track of carbon and nitrogen in the plant and water and nitrogen in the soil root zone. GOSSYM predicts the response of the field crop to variations in the environment and to cultural inputs. Specifically, the model responds to weather inputs of daily total solar radiation, maximum and minimum air temperatures, daily total wind run, and rainfall and/or irrigation amount. The model also responds to cultural inputs such as preplant and withinseason applications of nitrogen fertilizer, row spacing and within row plant density as they affect total plant population, and cultivation practices.

          2DSOIL version 03

            2D finite element water, solute, and heat mover model for plant models.

            Gas Flux from Band Application

              Gas Flux from Band Application (GF-Band) is an MS Excel spreadsheet tool that calculates the effective gas flux from soil of a multiple-band area to which manure or fertilizer has been applied in bands. One spreadsheet is for circular gas flux chambers and another is for rectangular chambers.

              Management Zone Analyst Version 1.0 Software

                Management Zone Analyst (MZA) is a decision-aid for creating within-field management zones based on quantitative field information. It mathematically breaks up a field into natural clusters or zones based on the classification parameters and number of zones you specify.

                SolarCalc 1.0

                  Solar Calc: Estimating Hourly Incoming Solar Radiation from Limited Meteorological Data