Fluxnet Archived Website with Site and Investigator Data

Fluxnet is a global network of micrometeorological tower sites measuring exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between ecosystems and the atmosphere. This dataset is an archived copy of the fluxnet.ornl.gov website from September 2017, containing site locations, investigator information, and data availability details. The archive was created by ORNL and its underlying database was last updated in October 2016.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the historical distribution and characteristics of flux tower sites globally using archived HTML pages.
• Reviewing project documentation, data protocols, and investigator contact information from archived PDF files.
• Accessing legacy maps or site imagery that may be included in the archived file formats like PNG or ISO.

Strengths

• Provides a preserved snapshot of a major international scientific collaboration (Fluxnet) as of a specific date (September 2017).
• Contains information from hundreds of tower sites worldwide, as indicated by the network's scope.
• Archived in multiple accessible formats (HTML, PDF, ZIP) for different types of content review.

Limitations

• The data is static and outdated; the active project transitioned to fluxdata.org in September 2017.
• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2016-12-31 vs. 2026-03-13), indicating metadata inconsistency.

Provenance

Source

ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) / Fluxnet project.

Collection Method

Archived copy of the fluxnet.ornl.gov website.

Time Range

Snapshot from September 2017, with content up to October 2016.

Freshness

The underlying content was last updated in October 2016, though metadata records show a later archival date.

Geography

Global, covering flux tower sites worldwide.