Flux Tower Measurements from Australian Tropical Savanna

Encompassing flux tower measurements of energy and mass exchange between the surface and atmosphere using eddy covariance techniques. Data were processed with PyFluxPro (v3.5.0) to produce gap-filled products including Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). The site is a 5 km² block of open-forest savanna in Australia's Northern Territory, a biome covering 1.9 million km² where approximately 40% burns annually.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between fire frequency and Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) in tropical savanna ecosystems.
• Model Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) partitioning to understand carbon dynamics in frequently burnt landscapes.
• Study energy flux measurements to assess surface-atmosphere interactions in a high-rainfall, open-forest savanna environment.
• Investigate the impact of annual burning (affecting ~40% of the biome) on biogeochemical cycles using gap-filled eddy covariance data.

Strengths

• Data processed with a standardized methodology (PyFluxPro v3.5.0) as described by Isaac et al. (2017).
• Represents a 5 km² block of relatively uniform open-forest savanna, providing a focused study area.
• Covers a nationally significant biome (tropical savanna) that occupies 1.9 million km² in Australia.

Limitations

• Specific data volume (rows, columns) and temporal coverage are not provided in the input.
• The dataset's geographic scope is limited to a single site in the Northern Territory, which may not represent all savanna conditions.
• File formats include HTML and PNG, which may not be the most convenient for direct quantitative analysis compared to structured data formats.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Flux tower measurements using eddy covariance techniques, processed with PyFluxPro (v3.5.0).

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20.

Geography

A 5 km² block of open-forest savanna in Australia's Northern Territory, within the tropical savanna biome.