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Samford Ecological Research Facility Flux Data Release 2024_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 (v3.4.17) 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>Samford flux station is situated on an improved (<em>Paspalum dilatum</em>) pasture in the humid subtropical climatic region of coastal south-east Queensland. Located only 20&nbsp;km from the centre of Brisbane city, Samford Valley provides an ideal case study to examine the impact of urbanisation and land use change on ecosystem processes. The valley covers an area of some 82&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> and is drained in the southern regions by the Samford creek, which extends some 13&nbsp;km to Samford Village and into the South Pine River. The Samford Valley is historically a rural area experiencing intense urbanisation, with the population increasing almost 50% in the 10 years to 2006 (Morton Bay Regional Council, 2011). Within the Samford valley study region, the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) not only represents a microcosm of current and historical land uses in the valley, but provides a unique opportunity to intensively study various aspects of ecosystem health in a secure, integrated and long term research capacity. Mean annual minimum and maximum temperatures at a nearby Bureau of Meteorology site are 13.1&nbsp;°C and 25.6&nbsp;°C respectively while average rainfall is 1102&nbsp;mm.</br>

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Date (Creation)
2024-09-06
Date (Publication)
2024-10-04
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
2024_v2

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/f9mc-9b11
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Co-author

Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology - Tucker, David (Research Assistant)
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Author

Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Peter (Professor of Global Change and Theme Leader)
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Author

Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Author

Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Liam ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The purpose of the Samford site is to:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>examine the influence of land-use change and intensification associated with peri-urban environments on soil, plant, animal and atmosphere interactions</li> <li>measure the exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between the soil/pasture and the atmosphere of an improved pasture in response to increasing harvest intervals</li> <li>use micrometeorological techniques in conjunction with automatic GHG static closed chambers (CO<sub>2</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>O, CH<sub>4</sub>), soil moisture probe transects, stream water quality and terrestrial biomass measurements to close the carbon, water and nitrogen budgets of the improved pasture</li> <li>develop a full global warming potential analysis from this data for this land use</li> <li>examine the suitability of micrometeorological techniques in complex terrain in a sub-tropical environment.</li></ul>
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 site was established around the Samford Ecological Research Facility and managed by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).</br> <br>This work was jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, and the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).</br>
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Peter (Professor of Global Change and Theme Leader)
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
2 George Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Point of contact

Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
2 George Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Point of contact

Queensland University of Technology - Grace, Liam ()
2 George Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
2 George Street
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

Description
20km from the centre of Brisbane, Queensland
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Temporal extent

Time period
2010-06-02 2017-12-31
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

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
  • 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
  • Atmospheric sciences
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Ecosystem function
  • Environmental management
  • Soil sciences
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Samford Ecological Research Facility Flux Station
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • LI-COR LI-7500
  • Gill Windsonic4
  • Hukseflux HFP01
  • Kipp&Zonen CNR4
  • Stevens Hydraprobe
  • Vaisala HMP155
  • Gill WindMaster Pro
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • soil temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • gross primary productivity
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • downward heat flux at ground level in soil
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • specific humidity saturation deficit in air
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • water evapotranspiration flux
  • Kilograms per square metre per second
  • surface upward latent heat flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • mole fraction of water vapor in air
  • Millimole per Mole
  • surface net downward radiative flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • surface friction velocity
  • Metre per Second
  • net ecosystem productivity
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • thickness of rainfall amount
  • Millimetre
  • water vapor saturation deficit in air
  • Kilopascal
  • wind from direction
  • Degree
  • wind speed
  • Metre per Second
  • surface upward flux of available energy
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • surface upwelling longwave flux in air
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • surface downwelling longwave flux in air
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • relative humidity
  • Percent
  • Monin-Obukhov length
  • Metre
  • mass concentration of water vapor in air
  • Gram per Cubic Metre
  • surface air pressure
  • Kilopascal
  • enhanced vegetation index
  • Unitless
  • air temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • net ecosystem exchange
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
  • Micromole per Mole
  • specific humidity
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • surface upward sensible heat flux
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • volume fraction of condensed water in soil
  • Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
  • water vapor partial pressure in air
  • Kilopascal
  • magnitude of surface downward stress
  • Kilograms per metre per square second
  • ecosystem respiration
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Degree Celsius
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • Kilograms per square metre per second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Millimole per Mole
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Metre per Second
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Millimetre
  • Kilopascal
  • Degree
  • Metre per Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Percent
  • Metre
  • Gram per Cubic Metre
  • Kilopascal
  • Unitless
  • Degree Celsius
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Micromole per Mole
  • Kilogram per Kilogram
  • Watt per Square Metre
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
  • Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
  • Kilopascal
  • Kilograms per metre per square second
  • Micromole per Square Metre Second
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 minute - < 1 hour
Keywords (Discipline)
  • eddy covariance
  • pasture
  • AU-Sam

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
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License
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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 productivity, 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
NetCDF files (2024_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>Samford Ecological Research Facility Flux Tower was established in 2010, 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
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/768e3d7a-1715-4465-b6d1-e71501ee7690

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
Title
Samford Ecological Research Facility Flux Data Collection

Identifier

Code
88abf22f-a6ce-4b32-9756-7304343d5e0a
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/768e3d7a-1715-4465-b6d1-e71501ee7690

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-03-17T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:32:03.632794+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 PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION PRECIPITATION AMOUNT SHORTWAVE RADIATION SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT SOIL TEMPERATURE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES TURBULENCE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED

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