Flux tower measurements from two sites approximately 300 meters apart in Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand, processed using standard micrometeorological methods. The final gap-filled product contains Net Ecosystem Exchange partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration, produced using the ONEFlux software as part of the FLUXNET Shuttle project. The site, at 204 meters elevation, receives around 900 mm of annual rainfall and has a mean temperature of 10.9°C.
Use Cases
- Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics in dairy pastures based on gap-filled flux data.
- Partitioning ecosystem respiration from gross primary productivity for carbon budget studies based on the described ONEFlux processing.
- Comparing greenhouse gas fluxes between irrigated and non-irrigated paddocks based on the two-tower experimental setup.
- Analyzing the impact of land-use change from deer to dairy farming on local micrometeorology based on the site history.
Strengths
- Data processed using standard micrometeorological quality control and the established ONEFlux software as described in Pastorello et al. (2020).
- Includes a final gap-filled product, which is crucial for continuous time-series analysis.
- Comparative data from two towers monitoring irrigated and non-irrigated paddocks approximately 300 meters apart.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery via data_gov_au.
- Collection Method
- Data gathered using eddy covariance techniques from flux towers and processed with standard micrometeorological methods.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-13 14:13:25.142869; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Beacon Farm site in Mid-Canterbury, New Zealand (204 m elevation).