Gatum Pasture Flux Tower Measurements from 2015

Flux tower measurements of energy and mass exchange between a pasture surface and the atmospheric boundary layer, processed using PyFluxPro (v3.4.17). The station was established in February 2015 on private farmland in southwestern Victoria, Australia, and monitors a pasture of perennial grasses used for grazing.

Use Cases

• Analyze Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics in a grazed pasture ecosystem to understand carbon balance.
• Partition NEE into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) to study the components of carbon flux.
• Study energy exchange between the surface and atmosphere using eddy covariance techniques at the Gatum Pasture site.
• Investigate seasonal patterns in flux data from a pasture composed of Phalaris aquatica and Trifolium subteraneum.

Strengths

• Data processed using the established PyFluxPro (v3.4.17) software as described by Isaac et al. (2017).
• Provides a final, gap-filled data product for analysis.
• Station has been operational since February 2015, offering a multi-year record.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and file size is unknown.
• Data is from a single location (Gatum Pasture), limiting geographical generalizability.
• Primary file formats are HTML and PNG, which may not be ideal for direct quantitative analysis compared to CSV or NetCDF.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Flux tower measurements using eddy covariance techniques, processed with PyFluxPro.

Time Range

Data collection began in February 2015.

Freshness

Last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Private farmland in southwestern Victoria, Australia, approximately 300 km west of Melbourne.