Otway Flux Data Collection
This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in Nirranda South using eddy covariance techniques. <br /> <br />
The Otway flux station was located at Narrinda South in south west Victoria, Australia.The pasture was grazed by dairy cattle with average grass height of 0.1m. Annual average rainfall at the site was around 800mm and was only moderately seasonal. Mean daily temperature ranged from 25°C in February to 12°C in July. The flux station was situated on a 10m tower. Fluxes of heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide were measured using the open-path eddy covariance technique. Supplementary measurements included temperature, humidity, rainfall, total solar, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and net radiation. Soil temperature and heat flux were also measured. The Otway flux station was established in February 2007 on private land at Nirranda South and managed by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research staff as part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies.<br />For additional site information, see http://www.ozflux.org.au/monitoringsites/otway/index.html . <br>This data is also available at https://data.tern.org.au .<br />
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-08-11
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Kitchen, Mark (Technical Contact)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, Western Australia, 6014, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Otway flux station was to :<br /> measure exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between the soil and the atmosphere using micrometeorological techniques.<br /> participate in the atmospheric monitoring strategy, which was developed by CO2CRC researchers in CSIRO, and is based on the effects of hypothetical storage leaks (point and diffuse) simulated by atmospheric dispersion models, over several distance scales at the Otway site.<br /><br /> The Otway Project included injection and geological storage of up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide together with the most extensive monitoring and verification program yet undertaken at a geosequestration site. <br />
- 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 Otway flux station managed by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research staff as part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies.<br>The Otway flux station is supported by CO2CRC. Equipment was provided by CO2CRC.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Kitchen, Mark (Technical Contact)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, Western Australia, 6014, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Nirranda South, Victoria, Australia.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2007-08-11 2011-01-01
- Title
- Etheridge, D et al., 2011. Atmospheric monitoring of the CO2CRC Otway Project for large scale CO2 storage projects. Energy Procedia, 4(2011) 3666-3675. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.298
- Website
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Etheridge, D et al., 2011. Atmospheric monitoring of the CO2CRC Otway Project for large scale CO2 storage projects. Energy Procedia, 4(2011) 3666-3675. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.298
Related documentation
- 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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- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- relative humidity
- Percent
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- soil moisture content
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- air temperature
- Degree Celsius
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- wind from direction
- Degree
- wind speed
- Metre per Second
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- gross primary productivity of biomass expressed as carbon
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- upward mole flux of carbon dioxide due inferred from storage
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimetre
- Percent
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Degree Celsius
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Degree
- Metre per Second
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimole per Mole
- Metre
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Metre per Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Mole
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- CO2CRC Otway Project
- AU-Otw
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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- Title
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- 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
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- 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. <br> 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/031eaac5-602d-44e2-848c-c20e21f120fa
- 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/031eaac5-602d-44e2-848c-c20e21f120fa
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2007-08-11T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:16:09.166140+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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