Alpine Peatland Flux Data Release 2023_v2
<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 Alpine Peatland flux station was established in 2017 at Heathy Spur I, an alpine sphagnum bog on the Bogong High Plains recognised by Parks Victoria as a reference ecosystem for this endangered ecological community. The vegetation is dominated by the peat-forming moss <em>Sphagnum cristatum</em>, as well as typical peatland species including candle heath (<em>Richea continentis</em>), alpine baeckea (<em>Baeckea gunniana</em>) and rope rush (<em>Empodisma
minus</em>). The Alpine Peatland tower typically experiences a mild growing season from October to June and 2-3 months of snow cover from July to September.<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
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Grover, Samantha ()
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia
Co-author
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Gunawardhana, Meeruppage Dilani ()
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia
Co-author
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Jayasekara, Charuni ()
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia
Co-author
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Treby, Sarah ()
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia
Co-author
Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University - Silvester, Ewen (Director of the Research Centre of Applied Alpine Ecology)
133 McKoy Street, West Wodonga, 3690, Victoria, Australia
West Wodonga
Victoria
3690
Australia
Co-author
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - Zegelin, Steve ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- <p>The purpose of the Alpine Peatland flux station is to:</p> <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>measure the exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between an alpine peatland ecosystem and the atmosphere using micrometeorological techniques</li> <li>support an understanding of the ecohydrology of a little-studied wetland ecosystem</li> <li>support national parks land managers to better understand peatland ecosystem function, specifically in relation to soil carbon sequestration processes, catchment hydrology and evaporation</li> <li>support an understanding of the impacts of global warming on ecosystem processes (such as photosynthesis, respiration or changes in ecohydrology)</li> <li>provide a contextual basis for understanding patterns of alpine plant and animal biodiversity (e.g. abiotic factors)</li> <li>utilise the measurements for parameterising and validating remote sensing measurements over mountain ecosystems</li> <li>utilise the measurements for parameterising and validating the Earth System models to better understand the effects of climate change.</li></u> <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
- <br><p>The Alpine Peatland Flux site is managed collaboratively by RMIT University and La Trobe University. Infrastructure at the site is on loan from CSIRO and was installed with assistance from Eva van Gorsel, Steve Zegelin and Parks Victoria staff. This site is part of OzFlux Australia.</p>
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Grover, Samantha ()
124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia
124 La Trobe Street
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Bogong High Plains near Falls Creek in Alpine National Park, Victoria.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2017-04-12 2022-06-20
- 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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Biannually
- GCMD Science Keywords
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- BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
- 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
- SNOW
- SNOW MELT
- ADVECTION
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
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- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- wind from direction
- Degree
- relative humidity
- Percent
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Unitless
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- gross primary productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- northward wind
- Metre per Second
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- eastward wind
- Metre per Second
- wind speed
- Metre per Second
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- air temperature
- Degree Celsius
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- vertical wind
- Metre per Second
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Kilopascal
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree
- Percent
- Kilopascal
- Metre
- Kilopascal
- Unitless
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromole per Mole
- Millimole per Mole
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Metre per Second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Watt per Square Metre
- Metre per Second
- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Watt per Square Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Metre per Second
- Millimetre
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- AU-APL
- Alpine
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
- 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
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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 (2023_v2)
- 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>Alpine Peatland Flux Tower was established in 2017, and is currently active. 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
- 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
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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/4e7c2432-de2d-439b-ac6b-64fa82058168
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Alpine Peatland 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
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4e7c2432-de2d-439b-ac6b-64fa82058168
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-06T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:21:41.233798+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
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