Cumberland Plain Flux Data Release 2022_v2
<br>This release consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer using eddy covariance techniques. Data were processed using PyFluxPro (v3.4.7) as described by Isaac et al. (2017). PyFluxPro produces a final, gap-filled product with Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER).</br>
<br>The Cumberland Plain flux station is located in a dry sclerophyll forest. The Cumberland Plain Woodland is now an endangered ecological community that encompasses distinct groupings of plants growing on clayey soils. The canopy is dominated by <em>Eucalyptus moluccana</em> and <em>Eucalyptus fibrosa</em>, which host an expanding population of mistletoe. Average canopy height is 23 m, the elevation of the site is 20 m and mean annual precipitation is 800 mm.
Fluxes of water vapour, carbon dioxide and heat are quantified with the open-path eddy flux technique from a 30 m tall mast. Additional measurements above the canopy include temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall, incoming and reflected shortwave and longwave radiation and net, diffuse and direct radiation and the photochemical reflectance index. In addition, profiles of humidity and CO<sub>2</sub> are measured at eight levels within the canopy, as well as measurements of soil moisture content, soil heat fluxes, soil temperature, and 10 hr fuel moisture dynamics. In addition, regular monitoring of understory species abundance, mistletoe infection, leaf area index and litterfall are also performed.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-11-11
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-02
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Co-author
Western Sydney University - Griebel, Anne ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
Co-author
Western Sydney University - Barton, Craig ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
Co-author
Western Sydney University - Metzen, Daniel ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
Author
Western Sydney University - Pendall, Elise ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Cumberland Plain flux station is:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>to quantify the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in a dry sclerophyll forest</li> <li>to characterize the functional behaviour and sensitivity of the different components contributing to the ecosystem carbon balance from sub-daily to multi-annual temporal scales and under climatic variability</li> <li>to identify the role of hydraulic limitations on constraining ecosystem productivity</li> <li>to quantify the impact of mistletoe on plant physiological processes and whole ecosystem water vapour and carbon dioxide exchange</li> <li>to validate remote sensing estimates of different radiation components to obtain accurate regional predictions of fuel moisture</li> <li>to understand how wood traits and microbial diversity interact to determine rates of wood decay.</li></ul>
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- <br>Cumberland Plain flux station is managed by the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University and was funded by the Education Investment Fund and TERN.</br>
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Western Sydney University - Pendall, Elise ()
Bourke Street, Richmond, 2753, New South Wales, Australia
Bourke Street
Richmond
New South Wales
2753
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- In the Hawkesbury Valley in central New South Wales.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2014-01-01
- Title
- Beringer J., Hutley L. B., McHugh I., Arndt S. K., Campbell D., Cleugh H. A., Cleverly J., Resco de Dios V., Eamus D., Evans B., Ewenz C., Grace P., Griebel A., Haverd V., Hinko-Najera N., Huete A., Isaac P., Kanniah K., Leuning R., Liddell M. J., Macfarlane C., Meyer W., Moore C., Pendall E., Phillips A., Phillips R. L., Prober S. M., Restrepo-Coupe N., Rutledge S., Schroder I., Silberstein R., Southall P., Yee M. S., Tapper N. J., van Gorsel E., Vote C., Walker J. and Wardlaw T. (2016). An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux, Biogeosciences, 13: 5895-5916
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Biannually
- GCMD Science Keywords
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- BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
- LAND PRODUCTIVITY
- EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
- TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
- TURBULENCE
- WIND SPEED
- WIND DIRECTION
- TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES
- ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
- PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION
- LONGWAVE RADIATION
- SHORTWAVE RADIATION
- INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
- HEAT FLUX
- AIR TEMPERATURE
- PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
- HUMIDITY
- SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT
- SOIL TEMPERATURE
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- wind from direction
- Degree
- northward wind
- Metre per Second
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- vertical wind
- Metre per Second
- wind speed
- Metre per Second
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- air temperature
- Degree Celsius
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- gross primary productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- relative humidity
- Percent
- eastward wind
- Metre per Second
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling photosynthetic photon flux in air
- Millimole per Square Metre Second
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Metre per Second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Degree
- Metre per Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Metre per Second
- Metre per Second
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Metre
- Kilopascal
- Degree Celsius
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Millimole per Mole
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Micromole per Mole
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Percent
- Metre per Second
- Millimetre
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimole per Square Metre Second
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- eddy covariance
- AU-Cum
- dry sclerophyll forest
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
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- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br /><br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN.<br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- NetCDF files (2022_v2)
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- <br>Processing levels</br> <br>Under each of the data release directories, the netcdf files are organised by processing levels (L3, L4, L5 and L6):<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>L3 (Level 3) processing applies a range of quality assurance/quality control measures (QA/QC) to the L1 data. The variable names are mapped to the standard variable names (CF 1.8) as part of this step. The L3 netCDF file is then the starting point for all further processing stages.</li> <li>L4 (Level 4) processing fills gaps in the radiation, meteorological and soil quantities utilising AWS (automated weather station), ACCESS-G (Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator) and ERA5 (the fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate).</li> <li>L5 (Level 5) processing fills gaps in the flux data employing the artificial neural network SOLO (self-organising linear output map).</li> <li>L6 (Level 6) processing partitions the gap-filled NEE into GPP and ER.</li></ul> Each processing level has two sub-folders ‘default’ and ‘site_pi’:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>default: contains files processed using PyFluxPro</li> <li>site_pi: contains files processed by the principal investigators of the site.</li></ul> If the data quality is poor, the data is filled from alternative sources. Filled data can be identified by the Quality Controls flags in the dataset. Quality control checks include: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>range checks for plausible limits</li> <li>spike detection</li> <li>dependency on other variables</li> <li>manual rejection of date ranges</li></ul> Specific checks applied to the sonic and IRGA data include rejection of points based on the sonic and IRGA diagnostic values and on either automatic gain control (AGC) or CO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>O signal strength, depending upon the configuration of the IRGA.</br>
Resource lineage
- Statement
- All flux raw data is subject to the quality control process OzFlux QA/QC to generate data from L1 to L6. Levels 3 to 6 are available for re-use. Datasets contain Quality Controls flags which will indicate when data quality is poor and has been filled from alternative sources. For more details, refer to Isaac et al. (2017).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/00451286-b2ef-4a6b-ba8e-340033fd73a0
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/00451286-b2ef-4a6b-ba8e-340033fd73a0
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-02T05:26:16.021360+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
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