BOREAS TF-08: Energy and Carbon Fluxes in a Boreal Forest

BOREAS TF-08 data provides measurements of energy, CO2, and water vapor fluxes from the NSA-OJP site in a boreal forest. The dataset includes surface meteorology and soil temperature data collected during the 1994 growing season and most of 1996. Columns suggest measurements of atmospheric radiation, temperature, pressure, winds, precipitation, soil moisture, and photosynthetically active radiation.

Use Cases

• Modeling boreal forest carbon budgets based on CO2 flux measurements.
• Analyzing energy balance and surface-atmosphere interactions using net radiation and heat flux data.
• Studying soil-vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks using concurrent soil temperature and meteorological data.
• Validating remote sensing products for boreal forests with ground-based eddy covariance data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans two distinct years (1994 and 1996), providing temporal context.
• Cross-platform presence on Data.gov and NASA Earthdata signals established scientific importance.
• Measurements cover a comprehensive suite of atmospheric, soil, and vegetation variables.

Limitations

• Column names and exact row counts are not provided in any source, limiting precise assessment.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (1996 vs. 2026), creating uncertainty about data currency.
• License is ambiguously specified as 'other-license-specified' without clear terms.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Collected by the BOREAS TF-08 team using eddy covariance and meteorological instruments.

Time Range

1994 growing season and most of 1996

Freshness

2026-04-10 05:50:18.856533 (from Data.gov, though this conflicts with the 1996 date from NASA Earthdata)

Geography

BOREAS NSA-OJP site (Northern Study Area Old Jack Pine site)