Official Series Description


Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the TIPPERARY soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of TIPPERARY, 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 TIPPERARY were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot . Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

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Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the TIPPERARY 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.

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Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the TIPPERARY series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot , parsed OSD records and snapshot of SC database .

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

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Geomorphic description summaries for the TIPPERARY 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 .

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Competing Series

Soil series competing with TIPPERARY share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records and snapshot of the SC database .

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

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Geomorphic description summaries for the TIPPERARY 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 .

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Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with TIPPERARY, 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 .

Block Diagrams

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Map Units

Map units containing TIPPERARY 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
Tipperary loamy fine sand, 3 to 12 percent slopes19110419497159jpbdco68619921:31680
Ecklund-Tipperary complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes618250497239jpdzco68619921:31680
Willwood-Tipperary, cobbly substratum complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes2125078497183jpc5co68619921:31680
Willwood-Tipperary complex, 12 to 40 percent slopes2113813497182jpc4co68619921:31680
Tipperary-Willwood complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes1922327497160jpbfco68619921:31680
Tipperary sand, 5 to 20 percent slopes1901622497158jpbcco68619921:31680
Tipperary-Playas complexTM6195495653jmrtnv62219721:24000
Umberland-Playas complexUR3802495661jms2nv62219721:24000
Tipperary fine sand, 4 to 30 percent slopesTGE2568495651jmrrnv62219721:24000
Tipperary-Fivemile complexTH2007495652jmrsnv62219721:24000
Nyserva-Tipperary complexNy1679495608jmqcnv62219721:24000
Yobe-Tipperary complexYC1409495672jmsfnv62219721:24000
Tipperary loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes22926016982741v061ut0131:24000
Badland-Tipperary association, 1 to 8 percent slopes1321093505395jyx2ut04719991:24000
Tipperary loamy fine sand, 1 to 8 percent slopes22911188505505jz0mut04719991:24000
Montwel-Tipperary-Rock outcrop association, 1 to 25 percent slopes1496271505416jyxrut04719991:24000
Tipperary loamy sand, 0 to 6 percent slopesTmB1589515739758sbwy61319691:20000
Tipperary-Tipper association, hillyTOE370915739058s3wy61319691:20000
Tipperary loamy sand, 6 to 10 percent slopesTmC267815739858scwy61319691:20000
Tipperary-Trook association, hillyTRE146415739158s4wy61319691:20000
Tipperary loamy sand, alkali, hummockyTnD135615739958sdwy61319691:20000
Tipperary loamy sand, 1 to 15 percent slopes -- Draft46AD15257953rxwy6291:24000
Apron-Wallson-Tipperary complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes820129690602wxlhwy6291:24000
Tipperary-Tipperary-like complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes830132533042ztjzwy6291:24000
Glenton-Riverwash-Tipperary complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes0621266815757958z6wy6471:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the TIPPERARY 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 .