Silver Plains Flux Data Collection
This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer at Silver Plains Station in Tasmania using eddy covariance techniques.</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 />This data is also available at http://data.ozflux.org.au </br>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-11-18
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-03
- Edition
- 1.0
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
- <p>The purpose of the Silver Plains flux tower is to:<p> <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 CO2 exchange in an adjacent climate change experiment</li> <li>Utilize 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
- <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
- On going
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
- Title
- Isaac, Peter et al., 2017. OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation. Biogeosciences, 14(12). doi:10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017
- Website
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Isaac, Peter et al., 2017. OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation. Biogeosciences, 14(12). doi:10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017
Related documentation
- Title
- Beringer, Jason et al., 2016. An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux. Biogeosciences, 13(21). doi:10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016
- Website
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Beringer, Jason et al., 2016. An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux. Biogeosciences, 13(21). doi:10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016
Related documentation
- 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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- volume fraction of condensed water in soil
- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- gross primary productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- northward wind
- Meter per Second
- vertical wind
- Meter per Second
- mole fraction of water vapor in air
- Millimoles per mole
- surface upward flux of available energy
- Watt per Square Meter
- magnitude of surface downward stress
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- wind from direction
- Degree
- surface downwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- water vapor partial pressure in air
- Kilopascal
- air temperature
- degree Celsius
- eastward wind
- Meter per Second
- wind speed
- Meter per Second
- relative humidity
- Percent
- mole fraction of carbon dioxide in air
- Micromoles per mole
- net ecosystem productivity
- Micromoles per square metre second
- water vapor saturation deficit in air
- Kilopascal
- surface upward sensible heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upwelling shortwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface upward latent heat flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface friction velocity
- Meter per Second
- scaling temperature
- degree Celsius
- net ecosystem exchange
- Micromoles per square metre second
- ecosystem respiration
- Micromoles per square metre second
- water evapotranspiration flux
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- surface downwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- specific humidity saturation deficit in air
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- specific humidity
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- thickness of rainfall amount
- Millimetre
- Monin-Obukhov length
- Meter
- surface air pressure
- Kilopascal
- mass concentration of water vapor in air
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- soil temperature
- degree Celsius
- surface upward mole flux of carbon dioxide
- Micromoles per square metre second
- surface upwelling longwave flux in air
- Watt per Square Meter
- downward heat flux at ground level in soil
- Watt per Square Meter
- surface net downward radiative flux
- Watt per Square Meter
- QUDT Units of Measure
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- Cubic Meter per Cubic Meter
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Meter per Second
- Meter per Second
- Millimoles per mole
- Watt per Square Meter
- Kilograms per metre per square second
- Degree
- Watt per Square Meter
- Kilopascal
- degree Celsius
- Meter per Second
- Meter per Second
- Percent
- Micromoles per mole
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilopascal
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Meter per Second
- degree Celsius
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Kilograms per square metre per second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Kilogram per Kilogram
- Millimetre
- Meter
- Kilopascal
- Gram per Cubic Meter
- degree Celsius
- Micromoles per square metre second
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- Watt per Square Meter
- 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/
- File name
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- File description
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- File type
- png
- 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
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Catalog for NetCDF files
- OnLine resource
- Read me
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- 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 (i) range checks for plausible limits, (ii) spike detection, (iii) dependency on other variables and (iv) manual rejection of date ranges. 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 CO2 and H2O signal strength, depending upon the configuration of the IRGA. For more details, refer to Isaac et al (2017) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017. <br> For further information about the software (PyFluxPro) used to process and quality control the flux data, see https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki.
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) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017 .
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/e2927e51-05db-4f83-8e51-5a68a54139f6
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e2927e51-05db-4f83-8e51-5a68a54139f6
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-08T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-05-03T00:00:00
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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