Soil Data Explorer - WEWELA

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the WEWELA soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of WEWELA, 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 WEWELA were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). 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 WEWELA 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 WEWELA series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the WEWELA 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 WEWELA 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).

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Competing Series

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

Select annual climate data summaries for the WEWELA 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 WEWELA 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 mountains figure.

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

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WEWELA, 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 WEWELA 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
Wewela fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	3341	552	357673	2tj7v	ne015	1976	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	3340	4710	100173	2tj7t	ne089	1981	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	3341	2915	100174	2tj7v	ne089	1981	1:20000
Wewela loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes	3342	2089	100175	3c7g	ne089	1981	1:20000
Valentine-Wewela complex, 3 to 9 percent slopes	4891	1094	100171	3c7b	ne089	1981	1:20000
Valentine-Wewela loamy fine sands, 6 to 30 percent slopes	4893	5194	357747	d087	ne103	1977	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	3341	2403	357756	2tj7v	ne103	1977	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	3340	2355	357755	2tj7t	ne103	1977	1:20000
Valentine-Wewela loamy fine sands, 3 to 6 percent slopes	4892	2255	357746	d086	ne103	1977	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	3341	511	100270	2tj7v	ne149	1982	1:20000
Lakoma-Wewela complex, 6 to 9 percent slopes	LwC	704	355257	cxnx	sd053	1982	1:20000
Lakoma-Wewela complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes	LwB	491	355256	cxnw	sd053	1982	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes	WgB	8761	354462	2tj7v	sd123	1975	1:20000
Wewela fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes	WgA	5279	354461	2tj7t	sd123	1975	1:20000
Wewela loamy fine sand, 0 to 4 percent slopes	WfA	1464	354460	cwv6	sd123	1975	1:20000
Wewela family, dry, 2 to 15 percent slopes	36	6505	512387	k65m	ut646		1:24000
Merrick-Wewela families association, dry, 0 to 15 percent slopes	26	4394	512380	k65d	ut646		1:24000
Kovich, frequently flooded-Merrick-Wewela families association, 0 to 6 percent slopes	35	2891	512388	k65n	ut646		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WEWELA 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).