Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from a Scottish Blanket Bog 2016-2022

Environmental Information Data Centre provides eddy-covariance measurements of carbon dioxide and methane exchange over a near-natural blanket bog in Scotland. The dataset includes gap-filled half-hourly time series from October 2016 to December 2022, enabling annual carbon budget calculations.

Use Cases

• Calculate annual carbon budgets using gap-filled time series of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes.
• Analyze relationships between greenhouse gas exchange and associated meteorological measurements.
• Model carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from pedological measurements at the blanket bog site.
• Study temporal patterns in Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) using half-hourly observations over six years.

Strengths

• Six years of continuous half-hourly observations from October 2016 to December 2022.
• Time series is gap-filled, facilitating direct calculation of annual carbon budgets.
• Data covers a near-natural blanket bog, a significant carbon store, in the Flow Country.

Limitations

• Data is site-specific to the UK_CLs location, limiting geographic generalizability.
• Unknown column structure and sample data availability may complicate initial analysis.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Eddy-covariance measurements with associated meteorological and pedological observations.

Time Range

2016-10-19 to 2022-12-31

Freshness

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Geography

Forsinard Flows RSPB Reserve, Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland