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A Metadata Reporting Framework (Frames) For Synthesis Of Ecohydrological Observations, Danielle S. Christianson, Charuleka Varadharajan, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Matteo Detto, Boris Faybishenko, Bruno O. Gimenez, Val Hendrix, Kolby J. Jardine, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Gilberto Z. Pastorello
A Metadata Reporting Framework (Frames) For Synthesis Of Ecohydrological Observations, Danielle S. Christianson, Charuleka Varadharajan, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Matteo Detto, Boris Faybishenko, Bruno O. Gimenez, Val Hendrix, Kolby J. Jardine, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Gilberto Z. Pastorello
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Metadata describe the ancillary information needed for data preservation and independent interpretation, comparison across heterogeneous datasets, and quality assessment and quality control (QA/QC). Environmental observations are vastly diverse in type and structure, can be taken across a wide range of spatiotemporal scales in a variety of measurement settings and approaches, and saved in multiple formats. Thus, well-organized, consistent metadata are required to produce usable data products from diverse environmental observations collected across field sites. However, existing metadata reporting protocols do not support the complex data synthesis and model-data integration needs of interdisciplinary earth system research. We developed a metadata reporting …