Alice Springs Mulga Flux Data: Energy and Mass Exchange Measurements

Flux tower measurements from an 11.6-meter mast in a 6.5-meter-tall Acacia aneura woodland near Alice Springs. Data processed with PyFluxPro (v3.4.7) provides gap-filled Net Ecosystem Exchange partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery platform released this version in 2022.

Use Cases

• Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics based on gap-filled flux tower data.
• Partitioning carbon fluxes into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) for ecosystem studies.
• Analyzing energy balance and water vapor exchange using eddy covariance measurements.
• Studying soil moisture and temperature profiles across different habitats (bare soil, mulga, understory).
• Correlating atmospheric conditions (wind, radiation, humidity) with surface fluxes using supplementary measurements.

Strengths

• Includes gap-filled final product for key variables like NEE, GPP, and ER.
• Provides extensive supplementary measurements across canopy, above ground, and below ground at specified heights (e.g., soil moisture at 4 depth layers).
• Site metadata is detailed, including canopy height (6.5 m), elevation (606 m), soil composition (50:50 sand:clay), and mean annual precipitation (305.9 mm).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• File formats listed are PNG and HTML, suggesting the primary data may not be in a standard tabular format.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Eddy covariance techniques at a flux tower, processed using PyFluxPro (v3.4.7).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-19 07:41:49.852327; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pine Hill cattle station near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia; flat terrain at 606 m elevation.