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Welcome to the NRCS
Soils Website.
Helping People Understand Soils
Soils is part of the National Cooperative
Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies,
universities, and professional societies to deliver
science-based soil information.
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In cooperation with the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, the National Soil
Survey Center has developed a Virtual Tour of
the Dr. Charles E. Kellogg Soil Survey
Laboratory. The video is available on the
NRCS-NSSC YouTube channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/nrcsnssc and the
direct link to the video is
http://youtu.be/BOW80LlCx-M.
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jNSM v1.5.1 is ready for
release to the public and USDA users. A CCE
approved version will be pushed to USDA
users around July 6. This software was
developed to provide a better understanding of
soil climate in soil survey. It is an update
to a traditional soil climate simulation model
called Newhall Simulation Model (NSM).
The jNSM software is a mesoscale model that is
appropriate for use in regional geospatial
analyses that support the MLRA update of
published digital soil geographic databases (SSURGO/STATSGO2).
This software can be used with monthly, serially
complete records from weather stations, Soil
Climate Analysis Network (SCAN) stations, and
local soil climate monitoring sensors. Output
includes soil moisture and temperature regime
classification, biological window calendars and
precipitation/potential evapo-transpiration
climographs, plus a summary of model inputs and
user information. |
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On June 4th, the National Soil Survey
Laboratory was named after Dr. Charles E.
Kellogg, an American pioneer of soil science who
was instrumental in bringing a national focus on
the value of soil data for the public good. |
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