Loxton Flux Data: 2008-2009 Orchard Carbon and Energy Exchange Measurements

Flux tower measurements from a Loxton, Australia orchard processed with PyFluxPro (v3.5.0) to produce gap-filled data on energy and mass exchange. The site was operational for 11 months from August 2008 to June 2009, measuring Net Ecosystem Exchange partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration. Data were collected by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network with funding from the National Action Plan for Salinity and the River Murray Levy.

Use Cases

• Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) dynamics in an irrigated almond orchard based on the gap-filled flux data.
• Partitioning ecosystem carbon fluxes into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) for productivity studies.
• Analyzing the impact of specific nutrient application rates (e.g., 551 kg/ha KNO3) on short-term carbon exchange.
• Studying energy and mass exchange between the surface and atmospheric boundary-layer using eddy covariance techniques.
• Calibrating or validating larger-scale land surface models with high-temporal-resolution flux data from a specific orchard block.

Strengths

• Data is processed to a final, gap-filled product using the established PyFluxPro software (v3.5.0).
• Site metadata is highly detailed, including exact coordinates, orchard planting dates (2000), tree spacing, variety layout, and precise nutrient application rates.
• Measurements cover a full growing season cycle for the orchard, from August 2008 to June 2009.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• The dataset's temporal coverage is limited to an 11-month period from a single site.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Eddy covariance flux tower measurements processed with PyFluxPro.

Time Range

August 2008 to June 2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 20 17:53:22.178394; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Loxton, South Australia (34.47035 °S, 140.65512 °E)