Riggs Creek Flux Data Release 2023_v1
<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 (v3.5.0) 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 flux station site is located within an area of dryland agriculture. The surrounding area is dominated by broadacre farming practices. The vegetation cover is predominantly pasture. Elevation of the site is close to 152 m and mean annual precipitation at a nearby Bureau of Meteorology site measures 650 mm. Maximum temperatures range from 12.3 °C (in July) to 29.7 °C (in February), while minimum temperatures range from 10.4 °C (in July) to 26.8 °C (in February).</br>
<br>The instrument mast is 4 m tall. Heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide measurements are taken using the open-path eddy flux technique. Temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall and net radiation are measured. Soil heat fluxes are measured and soil moisture content is gathered using time domain reflectometry.</br>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-03-31
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-16
- Edition
- 2023_v1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
University of Western Australia - Beringer, Jason (Professor)
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Crawley
Western Australia
6009
Australia
Co-author
Monash University - McHugh, Ian (Technical officer)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, 3145, Victoria, Australia
Caulfield East
Victoria
3145
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Riggs Creek Flux Station was to:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>monitor and determine the balance of environmental demands for water yields, agricultural productivity, carbon storage and biodiversity within a catchment landscape</li> <li>provide information for other projects (i.e. The Carbon Project) which seeks to establish a modelling tool for carbon and water fluxes across various land use types, in order to benefit land management practices in the Goulburn-Broken catchment region.</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></br> Riggs Creek Flux Station was part of a larger program, 'The Carbon Project', and was managed by the University of Western Australia. The work was funded through an ARC Linkage grant, in conjunction with generous contributions from the Victorian Department of Sustainability, Catchment Management Authorities, EPA Victoria and Kilter Pty Ltd. The flux station was part of the Australia OzFlux Network and the international FLUXNET Network.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
University of Western Australia - Beringer, Jason (Professor)
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
Western Australia
6009
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Located in pasture within the Goulburn-Broken catchment, approximately 40km south east of Shepparton, Victoria.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01 2017-07-12
- 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
- Not planned
- 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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- longitudinal component of wind speed
- Square metres per square second
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface friction velocity
- Meter per Second
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimoles per mole
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromoles per mole
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- wind speed
- Meter per Second
- soil temperature
- degree Celsius
- relative humidity
- Percent
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Meter
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Meter
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- lateral component of wind speed
- Meter per Second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- gross primary productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromoles per square metre second
- wind from direction
- Degree
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- vertical wind
- Meter per Second
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromoles per square metre second
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- air temperature
- degree Celsius
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Square metres per square second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Millimoles per mole
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromoles per mole
- Millimetre
- Kilopascal
- Meter per Second
- degree Celsius
- Percent
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Degree
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- degree Celsius
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Eddy Covariance
- dryland agriculture
- pasture
- AU-Rig
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 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
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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_v1)
- 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>Riggs Creek Flux Tower was established in 2011, and stopped measuring in 2017. The processed data release is currently ongoing, biannually.</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
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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
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urn:uuid/95fe6b8f-e157-4f12-9416-6d34541e26c1
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Riggs Creek 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/95fe6b8f-e157-4f12-9416-6d34541e26c1
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-17T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-12-16T00:00:00
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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