Gingin Flux Data Collection
This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in Banksia woodland on the Swan Coastal Plain 70km north of Perth, Western Australia using eddy covariance techniques. <br /> <br />
The Gingin site was established in June 2011 by CSIRO and is now managed by Edith Cowan University Centre for Ecosystem Management. The site is a natural woodland of high species diversity. The overstorey is dominated by Banksia spp. mainly B. menziesii, B. attenuata, and B. grandis with a height of around 7m and leaf area index of about 0.8. There are occasional stands of eucalypts and acacia that reach to 10m and have a denser foliage cover. There are many former wetlands dotted around the woodland, most of which were inundated all winter and some had permanent water 30 years ago. The watertable has now fallen below the base of these systems and they are disconnected and are no longer permanently wet. The fine sediments, sometimes diatomaceous, hold water and they have perched watertables each winter. There is a natural progression of species accompanying this process as they gradually become more dominated by more xeric species. The soils are mainly Podosol sands, with low moisture holding capacity. Field capacity typically about 8 to 10%, and in summer these generally hold less than 2% moisture. The water tabl is at about 8.5 m below the surface, and a WA Dept of water long-term monitoring piezometer is near the base of the tower. The instrument mast is 14m tall, with the eddy covariance instruments mounted at 14.8m. Fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapour and heat are quantified with open-path eddy covariance instrumentation. Ancillary measurements include temperature, air humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, incoming and outgoing shortwave radiation, incoming and outgoing long wave radiation, incoming total and diffuse PAR and reflected PAR. Soil water content and temperature are measured at six soil depths. Surface soil heat fluxes are also measured. A COSMOS Cosmic ray soil moisture instrument is installed, along with a logged piezometer, and nested piezometers installed with short screens for groundwater profile sampling. To monitor the watertable gradient, piezometers will be installed 500 m esat and west of the tower. <br/>
For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/gingin-banksia-woodland-supersite/ . <br />This data is also available at http://data.ozflux.org.au .<br />
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-10-13
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-07
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
Co-author
Co-author
Co-author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Gingin flux station is to : <br /> quantify recharge to Gnangara groundwater mound, Perth’s most important water resource <br /> Monitor ecophysiological responses to long-term variation in climate and water table drawdown <br /> quantify landscape-scale exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in a coastal heath environment <br /> further understand groundwater recharge under changing climate <br /> provide ecophysiological and micrometeorological data representative of an important biome within Australia subject to drying climate, falling watertables, fire and encroachment of feral species <br /> provide enhanced datasets of landscape-scale exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy along with ecophysiological characteristics and drivers in a semi-arid temperate ecosystems in Australia. <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 Gingin Banksia Woodland Site is funded by TERN. It was established by CSIRO and is currently managed by the Edith Cowan University (Centre for Ecosystem Management). The site is co-located with the Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Program (LEAP) – Gingin.<br> The Gingin flux station is sited on land traditionally owned by the Yued group of the Noongar people.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- The Gingin flux station is located on the Swan Coastal Plain 70km north of Perth, Western Australia, and 2km south of the University of Western Australia International Gravity Wave Observatory.
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-10-13
- Title
- Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite
- Website
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Gingin Banksia Woodland SuperSite
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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- mass concentration of carbon dioxide in air
- Milligram per Cubic Meter
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- relative humidity
- Percent
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- 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
- Meter per Second
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Meter
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimoles per mole
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Meter
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- eastward wind
- Meter per Second
- northward wind
- Meter per Second
- vertical wind
- Meter per Second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromoles per square metre second
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- gross primary productivity of biomass expressed as carbon
- Micromoles per square metre second
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromoles per square metre second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface friction velocity
- Meter per Second
- upward mole flux of carbon dioxide due inferred from storage
- Micromoles per square metre second
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromoles per mole
- soil electrical conductivity
- decisiemens per metre
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Milligram per Cubic Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Millimetre
- Percent
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- degree Celsius
- degree Celsius
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Degree
- Meter per Second
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Millimoles per mole
- Meter
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Meter per Second
- Meter per Second
- Meter per Second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Meter per Second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per mole
- decisiemens per metre
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- AU-Gin
- banksia heath woodland
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
- 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
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.<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/3cda0c5b-6826-4a4a-a212-c2f707c2448f
- 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/3cda0c5b-6826-4a4a-a212-c2f707c2448f
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2011-10-13T00:00:00
- 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