Adelaide River Flux Data Release 2022_v1
This data release consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in semi-arid eucalypt woodland using eddy covariance techniques. It been processed using PyFluxPro (v3.3.3) as described in Isaac et al. (2017), <a href=" https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017 "> https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017 </a>. PyFluxPro takes data recorded at the flux tower and process this data to a final, gap-filled product with Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). For more information about the processing levels, see <a href=" https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki "> https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki </a>.
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<br /> The ecosystem was dominated by <em>Eucalyptus tectifica</em> and <em>Planchonia careya </em>.<br /> <br /> Elevation of the site was close to 90m and mean annual precipitation at a nearby Bureau of Meteorology site was 1730mm. Maximum temperatures ranged from 31.4°C (in June) to 36.8°C (in October) while minimum temperatures range from 16.2°C (in July) to 25.1°C (in December). Maximum temperature varied seasonally by approximately 5.4°C and minimum temperatures varied by approximately 8.9°C.The instrument mast was 15 meters tall. Heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide measurements were taken using the open-path eddy flux technique. Temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, incoming and reflected shortwave radiation and net radiation were measured above the canopy. Soil heat fluxes are measured and soil moisture content was gathered using time domain reflectometry. <br /><br />
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-08-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-25
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Monash University - Beringer, Jason (Professor)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia
Author
Charles Darwin University - Hutley, Lindsay (Professor - Environmental Science)
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Adelaide River Flux Station was to: <br /> Provide information as part of a larger network of flux stations established along the North Australian Tropical Transect (NATT) gradient, which extends ~1000km south from Darwin 12.5°S. <br /> Examine spatial patterns and processes of land-surface-atmosphere exchanges (radiation, heat, moisture, CO2 and other trace gasses) across scales from leaf to landscape scales within Australian savannas. <br /> Determine the climate and ecosystem characteristics (physical structure, species composition, physiological function) that drive spatial and temporal variations of carbon, water and energy fluxes from north Australian savanna. <br /> Determine if fluxes of carbon, water vapour and heat over the various ecosystems as derived from the various measurement techniques can be combined to form a comprehensive and consistent estimate of the regional fluxes and budgets across the landscape.
- 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 was established in November 2007 and was managed by Monash University and Charles Darwin University until it was decommissioned in May 2009. The station was part of OzFlux, the Australia Flux Network and contributed data to the international FLUXNET Network.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Monash University - Beringer, Jason (Professor)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia
Point of contact
Charles Darwin University - Hutley, Lindsay (Professor - Environmental Science)
Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia
Ellengowan Drive
Casuarina
Northern Territory
0810
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Approximately 10.5km south east of Bachelor, Northern Territory
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2007-10-17 2009-05-24
- 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
- Not planned
- 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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- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- 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
- 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
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- gross primary productivity of biomass expressed as carbon
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- upward mole flux of carbon dioxide due inferred from storage
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- mass concentration of carbon dioxide in air
- Milligram per Cubic Metre
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Millimole per Mole
- Micromole per Mole
- 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
- Degree Celsius
- Degree Celsius
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Degree
- Metre per Second
- Kilopascal
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Milligram per Cubic Metre
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- AU-Ade
- Eddy Covariance
- woody savanna
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
- 88x31.png
- 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
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- NetCDF files (2022_v1)
- 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/161ae1cb-4362-4923-8fdd-7822dee75559
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Adelaide River Flux Data Collection
Identifier
- Codespace
- https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
- Description
- Parent Metadata Record
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/161ae1cb-4362-4923-8fdd-7822dee75559
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-06T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:19:29.937367+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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