Tennessee NASIS data element population guide

National required data elements per National bulletin 430-5-7 due by July 15, 2006. Click here for the National Soil Handbook subject index.

 

NASIS Table	NASIS Column(s)	Data Population Notes	Action Required
Component	Albedo Dry (RV)	Global assign
	MAAT (L,RV,H)	Mean Annual Air Temp; Global assign by county or MLRA
	MAP	Mean Annual Precip; Global assign by county or MLRA
	Frost Free Days	Global assign by county or MLRA
Component Geomorphic Description	RV?	required for all components, populate columns in each RV row as appropriate; See glossary of landform terms
	Feature Type	Enter rows for both Landscape and Landform; Alphabetical list of landform and landscape terms; Landscape globally assigned by series	Tennessee requirement
	Feature Name		Tennessee requirement
	Feature Modifier		Tennessee requirement
	Feature ID	Any number	Tennessee requirement
	Exists On Feature ID	Landforms exist on Landscape Feature ID's	Tennessee requirement
Component Parent Material Group	Group Name	for the RV row; Global assign by series
Component Parent Material	Kind	multiple rows as necessary, and other columns as appropriate for the RV row in the Parent Material Group table; Global assign by series
Component Two Dimensional Surface Morphometry	Hillslope Profile
Component Three Dimensional Surface Morphometry		populate the appropriate column – either mountains, hills, terraces, or flats
Component Slope Shape Surface Morphometry	Slope Shape Across
	Slope Shape Up/Down
Horizon	vcos (RV)	can be calculated via particle size estimator; already populated for existing data
	cos (RV)	can be calculated via particle size estimator; already populated for existing data
	ms (RV)	can be calculated via particle size estimator; already populated for existing data
	fs (RV)	can be calculated via particle size estimator; already populated for existing data
	vfs (RV)	can be calculated via particle size estimator; already populated for existing data
	Db 0.33 bar H2O (RV)
	Db oven dry (RV)
	0.1 bar H2O (RV)	For RV textures of Loamy Coarse Sand and coarser only.
	0.33 bar H2O (RV)
	15 bar H2O (RV)
	CaCO3 (L,RV,H)	enter 0 if none; Global assign
	Gypsum (L,RV,H)	enter 0 if none; Global assign
	SAR (L,RV,H)	sodium adsorption ratio; Global assign
	EC (L,RV,H)	electrical conductivity
	CEC-7 (L,RV,H)	if pH (RV) >= 5.5
	ECEC (L,RV,H)	if pH (RV) < 5.5
	Sum of Bases (L,RV,H)	By lab data only.
Horizon Fragments	Volume%  (L,RV,H)	for all rows in the table;
	Size (L,RV,H)		Tennessee requirement

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