i-Box: Processed Eddy-Covariance Data from Austrian Inn Valley

Five stations in the Austrian Inn Valley provide processed eddy-covariance data aggregated to 5-minute intervals. The dataset covers a seven-year period from 2014 to 2020, with measurements taken across different valley floor and sidewall locations. It was created by Manuela Lehner from Universität Innsbruck.

Use Cases

• Modeling boundary-layer processes in mountainous terrain based on data from five distinct valley locations.
• Analyzing temporal trends in atmospheric fluxes over a seven-year period.
• Comparing micrometeorological conditions between valley floor and sidewall stations.
• Studying the impact of instrument changes on flux measurement continuity.

Strengths

• Data from five distinct stations provides spatial coverage across valley floor and sidewalls.
• Seven-year temporal coverage from 2014 to 2020 allows for long-term trend analysis.
• Detailed instrumentation metadata is provided, including sensor types and replacement dates.

Limitations

• Data gaps exist due to instrument malfunctions and maintenance.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Universität Innsbruck

Collection Method

Processed eddy-covariance measurements from a network of stations.

Time Range

2014 to 2020

Geography

Austrian Inn Valley, specifically five stations: VF0, SF8, SF1, NF10, NF27.