Robson Creek Flux Data Collection
This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in tropical forest using eddy covariance techniques.<br /><br /> The Robson Creek site is part of the FNQ Rainforest Site along with affiliated monitoring sites at Cape Tribulation (Daintree Rainforest Observatory) and Cow Bay (Daintree Discovery Centre). The flux station is located at the foothills of the Lamb Range, part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, and north-west of a 25 hectare census plot established by CSIRO in 2012. <br /> The forest is classified as Regional Ecosystem (RE) 7.3.36a, complex mesophyll vine forest (Queensland Government 2006). There are 211 species in the adjacent 25ha plot, and average tree height is 28m, ranging from 23 to 44 m. Elevation of the site is 711m and mean annual precipitation is 2000mm. The upland rainforests of the Atherton Tablelands are some of the most biodiverse and carbon dense forests in Australia. The landform of the 25ha plot which is in the dominant wind direction from the station is moderately inclined with a low relief, a 30 m high ridge running north/south through the middle of the plot and a 40 m high ridge running north/south on the eastern edge of the plot. <br /><br /> The instruments are mounted on a free standing station at 40m. Fluxes of heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide are measured using the open-path eddy flux technique. Supplementary measurements above the canopy include temperature, humidity, windspeed, wind direction, rainfall, incoming and reflected shortwave radiation and net radiation. <br /><br /> This data is also available at http://data.ozflux.org.au . <br /><br />Note: Level 3 data for 2015 - 2018 were updated in 2018 correcting a rainfall issue in 2015 and a wind direction issue 2016 - 2018. A data gap from 2019-02-14 - 2019-02-21 was due to a major power supply failure.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-08-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-07
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
Co-author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Robson Creek flux station is: <br /> to measure exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between the tropical upland rainforest in Far North Queensland and the atmosphere using micrometeorological techniques <br /> to quantify the changes in carbon and water balances of an Australian tropical rainforest on a long term basis in the face of climate change <br /> to present the results from the study in real time to the public and inform the public on what these results mean. <br /> This work is part of a collaborative study between JCU and a number of other institutions at the Robson Creek node of the FNQ Rainforest Site (CSIRO, ANU, Griffith, La Trobe, UQ).
- 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
- The site is managed by James Cook University and is funded by TERN.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Robson Creek, 24 km northeast of Atherton on the western slopes of the Lamb Range in Danbulla National Park, within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-08-01
- Title
- Isaac, Peter et al., 2017. OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation. Biogeosciences, 14(12). doi:10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017
- Website
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Isaac, Peter et al., 2017. OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation. Biogeosciences, 14(12). doi:10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017
Related documentation
- Title
- Beringer, Jason et al., 2016. An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux. Biogeosciences, 13(21). doi:10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016
- Website
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Beringer, Jason et al., 2016. An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux. Biogeosciences, 13(21). doi:10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016
Related documentation
- 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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- air temperature
- degree Celsius
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Meter
- eastward wind
- Meter per Second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromoles per square metre second
- gross primary productivity of biomass expressed as carbon
- Micromoles per square metre second
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- mass concentration of carbon dioxide in air
- Milligram per Cubic Meter
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromoles per mole
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimoles per mole
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Meter
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromoles per square metre second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- northward wind
- Meter per Second
- relative humidity
- Percent
- soil temperature
- degree Celsius
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface downwelling photosynthetic photon flux in air
- Millimoles per square metre second
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface friction velocity
- Meter per Second
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- upward mole flux of carbon dioxide due inferred from storage
- Micromoles per square metre second
- vertical wind
- Meter per Second
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- wind from direction
- Degree
- wind speed
- Meter per Second
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- degree Celsius
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Milligram per Cubic Meter
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- Micromoles per mole
- Millimoles per mole
- Meter
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Meter per Second
- Percent
- degree Celsius
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Meter
- Millimoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Millimetre
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Meter per Second
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Degree
- Meter per Second
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- eddy covariance
- complex mesophyll vine forest
- AU-Rob
- Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
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/
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- File description
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- 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 />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
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Catalog for NetCDF files
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- 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 (i) range checks for plausible limits, (ii) spike detection, (iii) dependency on other variables and (iv) manual rejection of date ranges. 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 CO2 and H2O signal strength, depending upon the configuration of the IRGA. For more details, refer to Isaac et al (2017) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017. For further information about the software (PyFluxPro) used to process and quality control the flux data, see https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki .
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) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017 .
- 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/ebe0f735-57e8-4064-be75-9023b0ac4302
- 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/ebe0f735-57e8-4064-be75-9023b0ac4302
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-08-01T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-05-07T00:00:00
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