The United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Soil and Water Management Research Unit established a meteorological data collection system at the Rosemount Research and Outreach Center in 2003. In 2015 the site became part of the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network. The site is located in Dakota County Minnesota in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB) watershed. Data are recorded at 15-minute intervals.