South Eastern Queensland 1 Flux Tower Data: Energy and Mass Exchange in Pasture

Eddy covariance and meteorological measurements from the ALTAR South Eastern Queensland 1 flux tower site. Data are processed using EddyPro and PyFluxPro to produce a final, gap-filled product with Net Ecosystem Exchange partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity and Ecosystem Respiration. The site is an open pasture dominated by exotic grass and forb species.

Use Cases

• Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) based on gap-filled eddy covariance data.
• Partitioning ecosystem carbon fluxes into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) using the PyFluxPro methodology.
• Analyzing energy and mass exchange between the surface and atmospheric boundary-layer based on meteorological and flux tower measurements.
• Studying carbon dynamics in pasture ecosystems based on data from a site dominated by exotic grasses.

Strengths

• Data is processed using a documented methodology (EddyPro and PyFluxPro) as described in Isaac et al. (2017).
• Provides a final, gap-filled product for key ecosystem exchange variables like NEE, GPP, and ER.
• Includes both eddy covariance flux data and additional meteorological measurements.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and ecosystem bias specific to a single pasture site in South Eastern Queensland.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Measurements from a flux tower using eddy covariance techniques, processed with EddyPro and PyFluxPro.

Time Range

2025 (inferred from title version).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 21:43:06.717987; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Eastern Queensland, Australia (open pasture site).