Energy and Mass Flux Measurements at Pine Hill Cattle Station

Composed of eddy covariance measurements of heat, water vapor, and carbon fluxes between the surface and atmosphere at a mulga woodland site on Pine Hill cattle station in Australia's Northern Territory. It includes supplementary meteorological and soil measurements such as temperature, humidity, radiation, precipitation, and soil moisture at various depths.

Use Cases

• Analyze carbon flux data to model net ecosystem exchange in a semi-arid Acacia aneura woodland.
• Correlate soil moisture measurements at depths up to 0.85m with water vapor flux and precipitation data to study hydrological cycles.
• Investigate the relationship between downwelling/upwelling shortwave and longwave radiation measurements and ground heat flux.
• Study the impact of heterogeneous land cover, with over 80% fluxes from mulga woodland, on aggregated energy balance measurements.

Strengths

• Provides detailed site characterization including median canopy height (4.3m), total standing biomass (27.5 t/ha), and soil composition (91:8:1 sand:silt:clay).
• Includes a long-term precipitation record from a nearby station, noting a range from 33mm to 712mm since the tower's operation.
• Measures fluxes and supplementary variables at multiple heights above and below the canopy and at multiple soil depths.

Limitations

• The dataset's footprint is heterogeneous, with fluxes sourced from different vegetation types, which may complicate interpretation.
• Specific data volume (row count), column details, and temporal coverage are not provided in the input.
• Data formats listed are HTML and PNG, which are not typical for direct quantitative analysis and may require extraction.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Measured using the open-path eddy covariance technique at 9.8m, with supplementary meteorological and soil sensors.

Time Range

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Geography

Pine Hill cattle station, approximately 170 km north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.