Myall Vale A (Dryland) Flux Data Release 2025_v1
This dataset consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in a farming area using eddy covariance techniques. The data were processed using PyFluxPro (v3.4.18) 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 Myall Vale A site is located on a privately owned dryland field near Boggabri, New South Wales. The terrain is flat and elevation of the site is close to 240 meters above mean sea level.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-11-29
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 2025_v1
Identifier
Publisher
Principal investigator
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Macdonald, Ben ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Author
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Macdonald, Ben ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Author
CSIRO Environment - Stenson, Matt (Team Leader, Environmental Informatics)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Antille, Dio ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Environment - Kitchen, Mark (Technical Contact)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Brown, Zachary ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Environment - Nadelko, Anthony ()
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Myall Vale A Flux Station is to:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>Develop and ground-truth the APSIM model.</li> <li>Develop and ground-truth satellite based evapotranspiration models at pixel to catchment scale.</li> <li>Complement and infill gaps in agricultural flux datasets in the treatments and locations being measured</li> <li>Along with soil carbon and plant biomass data provide input for carbon balance research.</li></ul> The station was commissioned on 15 November 2023 and is managed by CSIRO Environment.
- 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 the CSIRO.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Macdonald, Ben ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Point of contact
CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Brown, Zachary ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Farming
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Myall Vale A (Dryland) site is located on a dryland field near Boggabri New South Wales.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2023-11-29 2025-01-17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- enhanced vegetation index
- Unitless
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilogram per Square Metre Square Second
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- wind speed
- Metre per Second
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- air temperature
- Degree Celsius
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- gross primary productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Metre
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- scaling temperature
- Degree Celsius
- relative humidity
- Percent
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- wind from direction
- Degree
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Kilopascal
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Watt per Square Metre
- Unitless
- Kilogram per Square Metre Square Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Metre
- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimole per Mole
- Micromole per Mole
- Millimetre
- Kilopascal
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Degree Celsius
- Percent
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Degree
- Watt per Square Metre
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Vertical Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Eddy Covariance
- dryland agriculture
- AU-MvA
- crop
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
- Other constraints
- This data was created with an automated process and may not closely represent the real situation at the site for certain parameters due to lack of input from someone with detailed site knowledge.
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 (2025_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 CO<sub>2</sub> and H<sub>2</sub>O 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></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.<br></br> Data from the site was collected from 15/11/2023, and the missing timestamps in this version may become available in a future version
- 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/2d705dcb-1ec3-4f55-9aca-842a0b644e8d
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Myall Vale A (Dryland) 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/2d705dcb-1ec3-4f55-9aca-842a0b644e8d
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-07-17T02:46:47.534922+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T09:45:23.689943+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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