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Liquid water content, coastal fog events, San Mateo County, California

Assessing the potential of coastal fog as a water resource

Dates

Start Date
2016-07-30
End Date
2017-12-21
Publication Date

Citation

Torregrosa, A., 2020, Liquid water content of coastal California fog events, San Mateo County: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P945W4C4.

Summary

Measurements of liquid water content (LWC) of coastal fog events were collected using specialized fog water collection units during the hot dry summer season (July to September) and continued through the winter. These data were assembled to explore the potential of fog water collection as a water resource for Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District public lands in San Mateo County, California. Simultaneous meteorological measurements were collected for four variables: wind, temperature, humidity, and solar radiation. The dataset includes ~12,000 records for two summers (2016 and 2017) at two sites. One site was a grassland near the MROSD Skyline Field Office (SFO) and the other in a Douglas forest clearing at the MROSD North Purisima [...]

Contacts

Principal Investigator :
Alicia Torregrosa
Originator :
Alicia Torregrosa
Metadata Contact :
Alicia Torregrosa
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Western Geographic Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Land Resources

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LiquidWaterContent_metadata_doi10.5066_P945W4C4.xml
“Metadata for MROSD dataset”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		28.9 KB application/fgdc+xml
Appendix1_TBRG_calibration.docx
“Appendix1. Fog Water Collection Gauge Calibration Coefficients” 		198.68 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
fogcollector_deployment.pdf
“Fog Collector Deployment by MROSD” 		2.88 MB application/pdf
MROSD_NPUR_2017_FOG_DATA.csv
“Fog Water Collection at NPUR site during 2017” 		454.21 KB text/csv
MROSD_SFO_2016_FOG_DATA.csv
“Fog Water Collection at SFO site during 2016” 		36.56 KB text/csv
MROSD_SFO_2017_FOG_DATA.csv
“Fog Water Collection at SFO site during 2017” 		600.09 KB text/csv
mrosd_sfo_pur_2016_2017_header_info.pdf 169.81 KB application/pdf

Material Request Instructions

Future water samples from the fog water collectors can be requested for research purposes by contacting Alicia Torregrosa, USGS (atorregrosa@usgs.gov) or Craig Beckman, MROSD (cbeckman@openspace.org).

Purpose

The liquid water content (LWC) of coastal fog events was measured to explore the potential of fog water collection as a water resource for Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) public lands in San Mateo County, California. The experiment also compared different types of fog water collecting mesh including some coated with an innovative hydrophobic formulation developed by NBD-Nano.

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Provenance

Fog collector design, construction, and deployment was a collaborative effort between Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD), U.S. Geological Survey, and NBD-Nano. MROSD provided funding to acquire instruments and equipment; NBD-Nano provided mesh material and hydrophobic formulation coating; USGS Climate and Landuse Change Mission Area provided funding for experimental design and analysis. Full description of instruments and equipment is in the “Data Fields Description (pdf version)” file titled mrosd_sfo_pur_2016_2017_header_info.pdf and photo-rich documentation of the implementation is in the “Fog Collector Deployment by MROSD” file titled fogcollector_deployment.pdf

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