Soil Data Explorer - SUNUP

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the SUNUP soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of SUNUP, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to SUNUP were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-18). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the SUNUP soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the SUNUP series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SUNUP series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the SUNUP series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with SUNUP share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-06) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the SUNUP series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the SUNUP series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with SUNUP, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

No block diagrams are available.

Map Units

Map units containing SUNUP as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name	Symbol	Map Unit Area (ac)	Map Unit Key	National Map Unit Symbol	Soil Survey Area	Publication Date	Map Scale
Biedsaw-Sunup complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	104	36	509444	k33p	co660	1994	1:24000
Biedsaw-Sunup complex, moist, 10 to 40 percent slopes	278	260	506722	k08w	co680	1970	1:31680
Biedsaw-Sunup gravelly loams, 10 to 40 percent slopes	7	42472	496734	jnwp	co682	1986	1:24000
Biedsaw-Sunup complex, moist, 10 to 40 percent slopes	MC278	383	3170524	k08w	co682	1986	1:24000
Threetop-Sunup complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes	209	5416	349720	cqx9	wy027	1993	1:24000
Sunup-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	192	4935	349697	cqwk	wy027	1993	1:24000
Sunup-Snavee-Rock outcrop complex, 0 to 30 percent slopes	229	36570	104584	3htp	wy031	1998	1:24000
Storsun-Sunup-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 50 percent slopes	227	22621	104582	3htm	wy031	1998	1:24000
Sunup-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	228	13618	104583	3htn	wy031	1998	1:24000
Sunup-Wyotite-Rock outcrop complex, 6 to 60 percent slopes	5D31		3356702	30zsl	wy043	1976	1:24000
Sunup-Threetop-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	237	14176	1669737	2yv77	wy609	2006	1:24000
Sunup-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes	236	367	1669799	1t1kh	wy609	2006	1:24000
Sunup-Wyotite-Rock outcrop complex, 6 to 60 percent slopes	5D31		3358254	30zsl	wy617		1:24000
Sunup-Carnero association	SW	24746	350946	cs5v	wy619	1971	1:24000
Sunup, cool moist-Rock outcrop complex, 20 to 40 percent slopes	SVE	22404	350945	2yryq	wy619	1971	1:24000
Sunup-Kishona-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes	281	6	816928	2yryw	wy619	1971	1:24000
Threetop-Sunup-Frontier complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes	284	19912	502420	2yb80	wy625	1985	1:24000
Sunup-Kishona-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 30 percent slopes	281	14002	502417	2yryw	wy625	1985	1:24000
Chilton Variant-Sunup-Spearfish Variant association, 5 to 60 percent slopes	12	1122	158023	59fj	wy650	1982	1:24000
Sunup-Snavee-Rock outcrop complex, 0 to 30 percent slopes	47	467	1414816	1jh77	wy715	1974	1:20000
Storsun-Sunup-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 50 percent slopes	42	195	1414812	1jh73	wy715	1974	1:20000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the SUNUP soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry (updated 2023-10-04).