Silver Plains Flux Data Release 2024_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 (v3.4.17) 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>Silver Plains Flux Station was established in 2019 in Interlaken, on the Tasmanian Central Plateau, on land owned and managed by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.</br>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-04-15
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-04-18
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 2024_v1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
University of Tasmania - Hovenden, Mark ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Author
University of Tasmania - Nyberg, Marion ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of the Silver Plains flux tower is to:<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>monitor exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in a high-altitude grassy peatland ecosystem on the Tasmanian Central Plateau</li> <li>quantify the carbon balance of the ecosystem, along with the key components of net ecosystem exchange, gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration</li> <li>identify key environmental and climatic drivers of carbon, water and energy fluxes</li> <li>complement manual chamber measurements of net ecosystem CO<sub>2</sub> exchange in an adjacent climate change experiment</li> <li>utilise measurements alongside manual chamber measurements and ancillary environmental variables to model ecosystem carbon dynamics under a future climate</li> <li>utilise the measurements for parameterising forage and grazing models</li> <li>utilise the measurements for parameterising and validating remote sensing measurements over semi-arid savanna ecosystems</li> <li>utilise the measurements for parameterising and validating the Earth System models to better understand the effects of climate change.</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> <p>Silver Plains flux station is part of the Australian Mountain Research Facility and ves grants from the Australian Rese. This site is part of OzFlux Australia.</p>
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
University of Tasmania - Hovenden, Mark ()
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Churchill Avenue
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
- Description
- Silver Plains flux tower is located at Interlaken, on the Tasmanian Central Plateau.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-01-01 2023-03-29
- 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
- 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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- surface friction velocity
- Metre per Second
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Metre
- surface downwelling photosynthetic photon flux in air
- Millimole per Square Metre Second
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimole per Mole
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- wind from direction
- Degree
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Metre
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Metre
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- soil temperature
- Degree Celsius
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Metre
- air temperature
- Degree Celsius
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromole per Mole
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- eastward wind
- Metre per Second
- northward wind
- Metre per Second
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- gross primary productivity
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- vertical wind
- Metre per Second
- relative humidity
- Percent
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Metre
- wind speed
- Metre per Second
- enhanced vegetation index
- Unitless
- dew point temperature
- Degree Celsius
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Metre per Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Millimole per Mole
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Gram per Cubic Metre
- Cubic Metre per Cubic Metre
- Degree
- Watt per Square Metre
- Metre
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Kilopascal
- Degree Celsius
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Watt per Square Metre
- Degree Celsius
- Micromole per Mole
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Metre per Second
- Metre per Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Micromole per Square Metre Second
- Metre per Second
- Percent
- Millimetre
- Watt per Square Metre
- Metre per Second
- Unitless
- Degree Celsius
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Silver Plains
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 (2024_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>Silver Plains Flux Tower was established in 2020, 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
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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/b3e76781-ccad-41b7-8def-fbcb85ec45b2
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Silver Plains 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/b3e76781-ccad-41b7-8def-fbcb85ec45b2
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-06T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:38:29.623609+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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