A three-year data set of gaseous field emissions from crop sequence at three sites in Germany

• Published in: Scientific data Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 415
• Main Authors: Mallast, Janine, Stichnothe, Heinz, Kreuter, Thomas, Thiel, Enrico, Pommer, Claudia, Döhler, Johannes, Eissner, Florian, Kühling, Insa, Rücknagel, Jan, Pamperin, Henning, Augustin, Jürgen, Hoffmann, Mathias, Simon, Anja, Hülsbergen, Kurt-Jürgen, Maidl, Franz-Xaver, Tauchnitz, Nadine, Bischoff, Joachim, Böttcher, Falk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 16-07-2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/172/4081; 706/1143; Air temperature; Ammonia; Ammonium; Calcium chloride; Data Descriptor; Emissions; Environmental studies; Fertilization; Greenhouse gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Leaching; multidisciplinary; Nitrates; Nitrous oxide; Potassium chloride; Precipitation; Radiation; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soil characteristics; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Tillage; Variables; Germany
• DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01549-2
• EISSN: 2052-4463

The purpose of the StaPlaRes project was to evaluate two innovative techniques of urea fertiliser application and to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. All GHG emissions, as well as other gaseous emissions, agronomic and environmental variables were collected for three years (2016/2017–2018/2019) at three experimental field sites in Germany. All management activities were consistently documented. Multi-variable data sets of gas fluxes (N
2
O and NH
3
), crop parameters (grain and straw yield, N content, etc.), soil characteristics (NH
4
-N, NO
3
-N, etc.), continuously recorded meteorological variables (air and soil temperatures, radiation, precipitation, etc.), management activities (sowing, harvest, soil tillage, fertilization, etc.), were documented and metadata (methods, further information about variables, etc.) described. Additionally, process-related tests were carried out using lab (N
2
emissions), pot and lysimeter experiments (nitrate leaching). In total, 2.5 million records have been stored in a Microsoft Access database (StaPlaRes-DB-Thuenen). The database is freely available for (re)use by others (scientists, stakeholders, etc.) on the publication server and data repository OpenAgrar for meta-analyses, process modelling and other environmental studies.
Measurement(s)
air temperature • air humidity • air pressure • global radiation • precipitation • Grain yield • nitrous oxide concentrations (gas field measurements) • emissions of NH3 • soil moisture • ammonium in soil • nitrate in soil
Technology Type(s)
weather station • Weighing • static closed chamber technique • method of calibrated Passive sampling • SENTEK sensor • Extraction with 0.0125 M CaCl2 solution or 0.1 M KCl (VDLUFA method handbook I A 6.1.4.1)
Factor Type(s)
Fertilizer
Sample Characteristic - Environment
gaseous field emissions
Sample Characteristic - Location
Germany