BOREAS TF-01: Energy, Carbon, and Meteorological Fluxes

Mid-April to December 1996 data from the BOREAS SSA-OA site includes energy, carbon dioxide, and momentum flux measurements above the canopy. The dataset also contains meteorological and soil temperature observations, supporting research on boreal forest ecosystem processes. Columns suggest measurements of atmospheric radiation, temperature, water vapor, winds, precipitation, soil moisture, and photosynthetically active radiation.

Use Cases

• Modeling boreal forest carbon budgets based on eddy covariance flux data.
• Analyzing energy partitioning between latent and sensible heat fluxes using meteorological data.
• Studying soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions through concurrent soil temperature and canopy flux measurements.
• Validating remote sensing products for boreal regions with ground-based radiation and temperature data.

Strengths

• Provides a continuous, multi-variable time series spanning over eight months in 1996.
• Cross-platform presence on datagov and nasa_earthdata signals established scientific importance and reuse.
• Includes a detailed suite of atmospheric and soil measurements inferred from the extensive tag list.

Limitations

• Key metadata is incomplete: exact row count, specific column names, and file sizes are unknown across all sources.
• Conflicting license information: listed as 'other-license-specified' on datagov but 'None' on nasa_earthdata.
• The most recent update date (2026) appears to be a metadata refresh, while the actual data collection ended in 1996.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Field collection via tower-based eddy covariance and meteorological/soil sensors.

Time Range

1996-04 (mid-month) to 1996-12-31

Freshness

2026-04-10 19:57:54.386735 (datagov metadata update)

Geography

BOREAS Southern Study Area Old Aspen (SSA-OA) site