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also available from the data portal. The **Level 2 Data** is most suited for use with DART, but does not currently
have a correction for the amount of hydrogen in the atmospheric volume near the probe. To this end, Rafael Rosolem has
a separate data stream. ``COSMOS_development`` reads Rafaels data streams and converts them to DART observation
sequence files. **Since these data streams are not widespread, we recommend using :doc:`./COSMOS_to_obs`.**
sequence files. **Since these data streams are not widespread, we recommend using** :doc:`./COSMOS_to_obs`.
| The workflow is usually:
#. `get the site metadata <http://cosmos.hwr.arizona.edu/Probes/probemap.php>`__ and enter it in the ``input.nml``
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The COSMOS data portal can be found at: http://cosmos.hwr.arizona.edu/Probes/probemap.php The development observation
data for each station is generally not available. The metadata for each station (location, height, etc) is also
available from the data portal. The **Level 2 Data** is most suited for use with DART. **We recommend using
:doc:`./COSMOS_to_obs`.** An example of the development observation data follows:
available from the data portal. The **Level 2 Data** is most suited for use with DART. We recommend using
:doc:`./COSMOS_to_obs`. An example of the development observation data follows:

::

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- Franz, T.E, M. Zreda, R. Rosolem, T.P.A. Ferre, 2012: Field validation of cosmic-ray soil moisture probe using a
distributed sensor network. Vadose Zone Journal (in press),
`doi:10.2136/vzj2012.0046 <http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2012.0046>`__

Future Plans
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- Implement a routine to automatically determine the column indices of the columns of interest.
- Implement a QC encoding that reflects the uncertainty of the measurement. Presently, all Level 2 data have an incoming QC of 1.

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