The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's ALTAR South Eastern Queensland 1 flux tower collection provides processed measurements of energy and mass exchange between the surface and atmosphere. 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 carbon flux into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) using the PyFluxPro methodology.
- Analyzing the impact of meteorological conditions on surface-atmosphere energy and mass exchange.
- Studying carbon dynamics in exotic grass and forb pasture ecosystems.
Strengths
- Data processing follows a documented, peer-reviewed methodology described by Isaac et al. (2017).
- Provides a final, gap-filled product for key carbon flux variables like NEE, GPP, and ER.
- Includes additional meteorological measurements alongside core eddy covariance data.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent 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
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-13 14:13:17.904867; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- South Eastern Queensland, Australia (ALTAR South Eastern Queensland 1 site, an open pasture).