Soil Data Explorer - WINDWHISTLE

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the WINDWHISTLE soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of WINDWHISTLE, 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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 WINDWHISTLE 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.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with WINDWHISTLE, 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 WINDWHISTLE 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
Windwhistle-Begay complex	78	4188	504576	jy1n	ut624	1985	1:24000
Redcreek-Windwhistle variant complex	76	4684	55207	1vfw	ut631	1982	1:24000
Windwhistle-Rock outcrop complex	120	892	55133	1vch	ut631	1982	1:24000
Windwhistle very fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes	103	11753	55327	1vkr	ut633	1983	1:24000
Bond-Windwhistle complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes	15	8078	55333	1vky	ut633	1983	1:24000
Windwhistle-Sazi very fine sandy loams, 1 to 3 percent slopes	104	7175	55328	1vks	ut633	1983	1:24000
Windwhistle-Pensom-Arches complex 0 to 4 percent slopes	109	3601	2379516	2kw2l	ut642		1:63360
Windwhistle-Sedillo Family undifferentiated group, 2 to 15 percent slopes	690180	175	2949684	2vb0h	ut690		1:24000
Windwhistle-Threetop complex, 2 to 10 percent slopes	5211		3170847	2w7k9	wy617		1:24000
Windwhistle-Taluce-like-Shingle complex, 12 to 30 percent slopes	5416		2969101	2wxmv	wy629		1:24000
Windwhistle-Threetop complex, 2 to 10 percent slopes	5211		2911934	2w7k9	wy629		1:24000
Taluce-like-Windwhistle-Worf complex, 6 to 25 percent slopes	5434		2911897	2w7j5	wy629		1:24000
Taluce-like-Windwhistle complex, 5 to 10 percent slopes	5310		2911896	2w7j4	wy629		1:24000
Bowbac-Windwhistle complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes	5205		2911891	2w7hz	wy629		1:24000
Windwhistle-Worf-like-Samday complex, 4 to 30 percent slopes	5363		3171000	2z210	wy629		1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the WINDWHISTLE 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).