M-TROPICS/MSEC - Vietnam

Location

20° 57' 20.772" N, 105° 29' 7.476" E
Brief Site Description: 
Dong Cao is a small agricultural catchment (47 ha) of northern Vietnam.
Detailed Site Description: 

M-TROPICS/MSEC is the network of three agricultural headwater catchments representative of the sloping lands of South-East Asia (Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam). It was launched in 1998, and started collecting data since 2000 on climate, land use, agricultural practices, stream discharge, suspended and bedload sediment yields.

The peri-urban Dong Cao catchment (49.7 ha) is located within the hills of Tien Xuan in the Thach That district of Hanoi, Hoa Binh province, in Northern Vietnam. The elevation of the catchment ranges between 118-482 m a.s.l. The slopes range from 20 to 60%. The catchment belongs to a larger lake catchment area of 538 ha with slopes changing gradually from 120% (~60°) to virtually 0% (0°).

https://mtropics.obs-mip.fr/

Field Site Type: 
International CZO
Registration: 
Registered
Network(s): 
CRITEX
LTER
OZCAR
RBV
Study Start Date: 
1999
Mean Annual Precipitation: 
1 502 millimeters / year
Average Annual Temperature: 
21°C
Land Cover: 
Shrubland
Grassland/Herbaceous
Geology: 
metasediments
Soil Order: 
Ultisol
Hydrology: Surface water - Stream Flow Performance: 
Perennial
Climate: 
Tropical
Group visibility: 
Public - accessible to all site users