region_config.json

{
  "region": "snowy_range_wy",
  "description": "Subalpine watershed around the GLEES AmeriFlux site in the Snowy Range, Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. Drought, snowmelt, and wildfire monitoring domain.",
  "bbox": {
    "min_lat": 41.20,
    "max_lat": 41.55,
    "min_lon": -106.45,
    "max_lon": -106.05
  },
  "date_range": {
    "start": "2023-05-01",
    "end": "2023-10-01"
  },
  "glees": {
    "site_id": "US-GLE",
    "name": "Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site (Brooklyn Tower)",
    "lat": 41.3665,
    "lon": -106.2399,
    "elevation_m": 3197,
    "vegetation": "Evergreen Needleleaf Forest (subalpine spruce-fir)",
    "base_doi": "10.17190/AMF/1246056"
  },
  "snotel": {
    "comment": "NRCS SNOTEL station Brooklyn Lake (#367), co-located with GLEES (~1 km). Public AWDB REST API, no auth. Primary live source for snow/SWE/soil/met while the GLEES Thor Blade is unavailable (see SPEC.md no-blade strategy).",
    "node": "SNOTEL:367",
    "station_triplet": "367:WY:SNTL",
    "lat": 41.367,
    "lon": -106.233,
    "duration": "DAILY",
    "elements": ["WTEQ", "SNWD", "PREC", "PRCP", "TOBS", "TAVG", "SMS", "STO", "RHUM", "WSPD"]
  },
  "sage": {
    "comment": "Sage/Waggle node VSNs. The GLEES Thor Blade edge node is the primary live source for the GLEES instrument cluster (Tier 3/4 in SPEC.md). Add its VSN + GLEES coordinates once known; until then the fetcher skips (no unbounded network-wide pull) and the workflow uses the AmeriFlux historical archive only. Each node: {vsn, lat, lon}.",
    "nodes": [],
    "_example_thor_blade_node": {
      "vsn": "W0XX",
      "lat": 41.3665,
      "lon": -106.2399,
      "note": "GLEES Thor Blade — replace W0XX with the real VSN to enable the live Sage path"
    },
    "measurements": {
      "soil_moisture": ["env.soil.moisture", "env.soil.water_content"],
      "soil_temp": ["env.soil.temperature"],
      "air_temp": ["env.temperature"],
      "rel_humidity": ["env.relative_humidity"],
      "pressure": ["env.pressure"],
      "wind_speed": ["env.wind.speed"],
      "precip": ["env.raingauge.total_acc", "env.precipitation"],
      "snow_depth": ["env.snow.depth"],
      "swe": ["env.snow.water_equivalent"],
      "netrad": ["env.radiation.net"],
      "sw_in": ["env.radiation.shortwave_incoming"],
      "lw_in": ["env.radiation.longwave_incoming"],
      "le": ["env.flux.latent_heat"],
      "h": ["env.flux.sensible_heat"],
      "et": ["env.flux.evapotranspiration"],
      "surface_temp": ["env.thermal.surface_temperature"]
    },
    "image_streams": {
      "comment": "Camera/thermal uploads (Sage 'upload' records). Consumed by the planned image_inference stage (SPEC.md 8.5) to derive snow_cover_fraction, canopy_greenness (GCC), and surface_temp.",
      "rgb_camera": "upload",
      "thermal_camera": "upload"
    }
  }
}