Gingin 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>
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 <em>Banksia</em> spp. mainly <em>Banksia menziesii</em>, <em>Banksia attenuata</em>, and <em>Banksia grandis</em> with a height of around 7 m and leaf area index of about 0.8. There are occasional stands of eucalypts and acacia that reach to 10 m 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 table 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 14.8 m tall, with the eddy covariance instruments mounted at 14.8 m. 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 east and west of the tower. <br/> <br/>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-03-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-07
- Edition
- 2024_v1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Co-author
Co-author
Co-author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The purpose of Gingin flux station is to: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>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</li> <li>monitor ecophysiological responses to long-term variation in climate and water table drawdown</li> <li>further understand groundwater recharge under changing climate</li> <li>provide ecophysiological and micrometeorological data representative of an important biome within Australia subject to drying climate, falling watertables, fire and encroachment of feral species</li> <li>quantify landscape-scale exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy in a coastal heath 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>Gingin Banksia Woodland Site is funded by TERN. It was established by CSIRO and is currently managed by Edith Cowan University (Centre for Ecosystem Management). The site is co-located with the Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Program (LEAP) – Gingin.<br> Gingin flux station is sited on land traditionally owned by the Yued group of the Noongar people.
- Status
- Completed
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.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-10-13 2024-02-02
- 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 air pressure
- Kilopascal
- air temperature
- degree Celsius
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- soil temperature
- degree Celsius
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Meter
- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromoles per mole
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromoles per square metre second
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- gross primary productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Meter
- soil electrical conductivity
- decisiemens per metre
- wind speed
- Meter per Second
- virtual heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- lateral component of wind speed
- Meter per Second
- enhanced vegetation index
- Unitless
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- longitudinal component of wind speed
- Meter per Second
- wind from direction
- Degree
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- vertical wind
- Meter per Second
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimoles per mole
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface friction velocity
- Meter per Second
- surface downwelling photosynthetic photon flux in air
- Millimoles per square metre second
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromoles per square metre second
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromoles per square metre second
- relative humidity
- Percent
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Meter
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Kilopascal
- degree Celsius
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- degree Celsius
- Watt per Square Meter
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Micromoles per mole
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Watt per Square Meter
- decisiemens per metre
- Meter per Second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Unitless
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Meter per Second
- Degree
- Kilopascal
- Kilopascal
- Meter per Second
- Millimoles per mole
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- Millimoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Millimetre
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Percent
- Meter
- 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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- File description
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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
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- 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>Gingin Flux Tower was established in 2011, 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/b708660e-10e1-467a-be9f-b05eda462084
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Title
- Gingin 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/b708660e-10e1-467a-be9f-b05eda462084
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-17T00:00:00
- 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
Identifier
Overviews
Spatial extent
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