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On December 4, 2020 at 11:12:02 AM UTC, Gravatar Micah Wilhelm:
  • Updated description of LWF long-term experimental irrigation site Pfynwald from

    ![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/39a232b5-c50e-490c-9bee-f04c2f697e14/resource/6d38da33-adc3-498e-aa48-7faf60a50a02/download/lwf_irrigation_experiment-pfynwald_2013.jpg "LWF experimental irrigatino site Pfynwald") As the largest contiguous pine forest in Switzerland, the Pfyn forest in Canton Valais (46° 18' N, 7° 36' E, 615 m ASL) offers the best conditions for such measurements. In light of this, a WSL research team installed a long-term experiment of 20 years duration in the Pfyn forest. The average temperature here is 9.2°C, the yearly accumulated precipitation is 657 mm (average 1961-1990). The pines in the middle of the forest are about 100 years old and 10.8 m high. The test area has 876 trees covering 1.2 ha divided into 8 plots of 1'000 m2 each. Between the months of April and October, four of these plots are irrigated by a sprinkler system providing an additional 700 mm of water, annually. In the other four plots, the trees grow under natural, hence relatively dry conditions.
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    ![alt text](https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/39a232b5-c50e-490c-9bee-f04c2f697e14/resource/6d38da33-adc3-498e-aa48-7faf60a50a02/download/lwf_irrigation_experiment-pfynwald_2013.jpg "LWF experimental irrigation site Pfynwald") As the largest contiguous pine forest in Switzerland, the Pfyn forest in Canton Valais (46° 18' N, 7° 36' E, 615 m ASL) offers the best conditions for such measurements. In light of this, a WSL research team installed a long-term experiment of 20 years duration in the Pfyn forest. The average temperature here is 9.2°C, the yearly accumulated precipitation is 657 mm (average 1961-1990). The pines in the middle of the forest are about 100 years old and 10.8 m high. The test area has 876 trees covering 1.2 ha divided into 8 plots of 1'000 m2 each. Between the months of April and October, four of these plots are irrigated by a sprinkler system providing an additional 700 mm of water, annually. In the other four plots, the trees grow under natural, hence relatively dry conditions.