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Information about the natural forest management experiment can be found in:

Günter, S.; Cabrera, O.; Weber, M.; Stimm, B.; Zimmermann, M.; Fiedler, K.; Knuth, J.; Boy, J.; Wilcke, W.; Iost, S.; Makeschin, F.; Werner, F.; Gradstein, R. & Mosandl, R. Beck, E.; Bendix, J.; Kottke, I. & Mosandl, R. (Eds.) Natural Forest Management in Neotropical Mountain Rain Forests -- An Ecological Experiment, Chapter 26 in "Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador", Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 2008, 198, 363-375

Due to technical problems the former weather station ECSF (established 1998) was shut down in 2010. At the same time a new weather station called "Climate Station ECSF established 2010" was installed 3m beside the former ECSF weather station on the same measuring plot.

The data are quality checked by a standardised method.

Climate Parameter Quality Check for site ECSF
Checking modules:

1. Does a value exist?
Quality flag is set to
"d = missing"

2. Checking of site specific threshold value.
If the value is not inbetween the thresholds the quality flag is set to "c = out of range":
Windspeed max = 25
Global Radiation max = 1400
Air temperature in 2m max = 30
Air temperature in 2m min = 5
Air humidity max = 99.9
Air humidity min = 10

3. Checking the plausibility of air temperature and air humidity within the measurement intervals by comparing the previous and current values.
If the temperature amplitude is higher then 10°C and humidity amplitude is higher than 30% the plausibility of this variation is checked by comparing to the variation of the other parameter.
The quality flag is set to "e = variation implausible".

4. Precipitation check
If precipitation is more than 25 mm then quality flag is set to "c = out of range"
If precipitation is more than 15 mm and air temperature increases more than 0.2 °C inbetween a temporal interval then quality flag is set to "e = variation impossible".

5. Relative air humidity values are corrected by a standarized method and quality flag is set to "m = manually corrected".

6. Wind direction is not quality checked and flag is set to "nqc = not quality checked"

All other values are set to "a = valid".