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Gatum Pasture Flux Data Collection

<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 (v3.4.15) 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 Gatum Pasture flux station, established in February 2015, was located on private farmland in southwestern Victoria, approximately 300&nbsp;km west of Melbourne. The pasture is composed of winter-active perennial grasses (<em>Phalaris aquatica</em> L. and <em>Trifolium subteraneum</em> L.) and is used for sheep and, sporadically, cattle grazing.</br>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-10-06
Date (Publication)
2023-12-21
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
2023_v2

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Monash University - Silva, Marcela ()
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia

Author

Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University - McHugh, Ian (Technical officer)
23 College Walk, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
Clayton
Victoria
3800
Australia

Author

Monash University - Daly, Edoardo (Assoc Prof)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The main aim of the Gatum Flux station was to quantify the fluxes in a winter-active perennial pasture that is minimally managed. The complete dataset can be used to relate the inter- and intra-annual variability of environmental variables with fluxes variability.
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>The research was supported by the Australian Research Council (grants no. LP140100871 and DP180101229). Rob Lawrance and Georgie Luckock are thankfully acknowledged for providing access to their farm.</br>
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Monash University - Daly, Edoardo (Assoc Prof)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

Description
The Gatum Pasture flux station is located on private farmland in southwestern Victoria, approximately 300&nbsp;km west of Melbourne.
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Temporal extent

Time period
2015-02-09 2021-12-31
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
Website
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

Related documentation

Title
Peixoto Neto A. M. L., Cartwright I., Silva M. R. F., McHugh I., Dresel P. E., Teodosio B., Jovanovic D., McCaskill M. R., Webb J., and Daly E. (2022). Linking evapotranspiration seasonal cycles to the water balance of headwater catchments with contrasting land uses. Hydrological Processes, 36(12): e14784.
Website
Peixoto Neto A. M. L., Cartwright I., Silva M. R. F., McHugh I., Dresel P. E., Teodosio B., Jovanovic D., McCaskill M. R., Webb J., and Daly E. (2022). Linking evapotranspiration seasonal cycles to the water balance of headwater catchments with contrasting land uses. Hydrological Processes, 36(12): e14784.

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Biannually
GCMD Science Keywords
  • BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
  • LAND PRODUCTIVITY
  • EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
  • TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
  • ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
  • TURBULENCE
  • WIND SPEED
  • WIND DIRECTION
  • TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES
  • ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
  • LONGWAVE RADIATION
  • SHORTWAVE RADIATION
  • INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
  • HEAT FLUX
  • AIR TEMPERATURE
  • HUMIDITY
  • SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT
  • SOIL TEMPERATURE
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Atmospheric sciences
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Ecosystem function
  • Environmental management
  • Soil sciences
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Gatum Pasture Flux Station
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • Kipp&Zonen CNR4
  • Hukseflux HFP01
  • Campbell Scientific CS616
  • Campbell Scientific 108
  • Rotronic HC2(A)-S, HC2(A)-S3(H), HC2(A)-S-HH, HC2-S3CO3(-PT15), HC2(A)-SM and HC2-S and HC2A-S series
  • Campbell Scientific IRGASON
  • Campbell Scientific CPEC200
  • Campbell Scientific Q7.1
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • surface upward sensible heat flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • soil temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • wind speed
  • Metre per Second
  • gross primary productivity
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • specific humidity
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • water vapor partial pressure in air
  • Kilopascal
  • wind from direction
  • Degree
  • Monin-Obukhov length
  • Metre
  • surface friction velocity
  • Metre per Second
  • ecosystem respiration
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • mole fraction of water vapor in air
  • Millimole per Mole
  • downward heat flux at ground level in soil
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • surface upward flux of available energy
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • volume fraction of condensed water in soil
  • Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
  • water evapotranspiration flux
  • Unitless
  • mass concentration of water vapor in air
  • Gram per Cubic Metre
  • surface upward latent heat flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • water vapor saturation deficit in air
  • Kilopascal
  • net ecosystem productivity
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • 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
  • surface net downward radiative flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • thickness of rainfall amount
  • Millimetre
  • mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
  • Micromole per Mole
  • air temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • vertical wind
  • Metre per Second
  • surface downwelling longwave flux in air
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • net ecosystem exchange
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • magnitude of surface downward stress
  • Kilograms per metre per square second
  • longitudinal component of wind speed
  • Metre per Second
  • relative humidity
  • Percent
  • surface air pressure
  • Kilopascal
  • lateral component of wind speed
  • Metre per Second
  • specific humidity saturation deficit in air
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Degree Celsius
  • Metre per Second
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • Kilopascal
  • Degree
  • Metre
  • Metre per Second
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Millimole per Mole
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
  • Unitless
  • Gram per Cubic Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Kilopascal
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Millimetre
  • Micromole per Mole
  • Degree Celsius
  • Metre per Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Kilograms per metre per square second
  • Metre per Second
  • Percent
  • Kilopascal
  • Metre per Second
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 minute - < 1 hour
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Pasture

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
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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
Other constraints
Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified
Environment description
<br>File naming convention</br> <br>The NetCDF files follow the naming convention below:</br> <br>SiteName_ProcessingLevel_FromDate_ToDate_Type.nc<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>SiteName: short name of the site</li> <li>ProcessingLevel: file processing level (L3, L4, L5, L6) </li> <li>FromDate: temporal interval (start), YYYYMMDD</li> <li>ToDate: temporal interval (end), YYYYMMDD</li> <li>Type (Level 6 only): Summary, Monthly, Daily, Cumulative, Annual</li></ul> For the NetCDF files at Level 6 (L6), there are several additional 'aggregated' files. For example: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>Summary: This file is a summary of the L6 data for daily, monthly, annual and cumulative data. The files Monthly to Annual below are combined together in one file.</li> <li>Monthly: This file shows L6 monthly averages of the respective variables, e.g. AH, Fc, NEE, <em>etc.</em></li> <li>Daily: same as Monthly but with daily averages.</li> <li>Cumulative: File showing cumulative values for ecosystem respiration, evapo-transpiration, gross primary product, net ecosystem exchange and production as well as precipitation.</li> <li>Annual: same as Monthly but with annual averages.</li></ul>

Distribution Information

Distribution format

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
<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> <br>Gatum Pasture Flux Tower was established in February 2015, and was decommissioned in February 2022. The processed data release is currently ongoing, biannually.</br> <br></br>
Title
Isaac P., Cleverly J., McHugh I., van Gorsel E., Ewenz C. and Beringer, J. (2017). OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation, Biogeosciences, 14: 2903-2928
Website
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017

Abstract
Isaac P., Cleverly J., McHugh I., van Gorsel E., Ewenz C. and Beringer, J. (2017). OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation, Biogeosciences, 14: 2903-2928

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
Title
Isaac P., Cleverly J., McHugh I., van Gorsel E., Ewenz C. and Beringer, J. (2017). OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation, Biogeosciences, 14: 2903-2928
Website
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017

Method documentation

Title
PyFluxPro
Website
https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki

Method documentation

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/23d900bf-a96c-4594-a321-c4b07c417c5c

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/23d900bf-a96c-4594-a321-c4b07c417c5c

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2021-08-06T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:03:02.824630+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

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Atmospheric sciences Climate change impacts and adaptation Ecosystem function Environmental management Soil sciences
GCMD Science Keywords
AIR TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES EVAPOTRANSPIRATION HEAT FLUX HUMIDITY INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION LAND PRODUCTIVITY LONGWAVE RADIATION SHORTWAVE RADIATION SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT SOIL TEMPERATURE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES TURBULENCE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED

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