Ti Tree East FLUXNET Release 2026_r1

Ti Tree East in Australia's Northern Territory provides flux tower measurements of energy, water vapor, and carbon exchange between the surface and atmosphere. Data were processed using PyFluxPro and ONEFlux software to produce gap-filled products like Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). This release is part of the FLUXNET Shuttle project and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) based on gap-filled flux tower data.
• Partitioning carbon flux into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) using the ONEFlux methodology.
• Analyzing energy balance and microclimate based on supplementary radiation, temperature, humidity, and wind measurements.
• Studying soil moisture and temperature dynamics across different soil depths and vegetation understoreys.

Strengths

• Data processed with established PyFluxPro and ONEFlux pipelines as described in referenced scientific literature (Isaac et al., 2017; Pastorello et al., 2020).
• Includes a comprehensive suite of supplementary measurements: radiation, precipitation, soil moisture (at four depth layers), soil temperature, and wind.
• Site metadata is detailed, including specific GPS coordinates (-22.2870, 133.6400), elevation (553 m), and long-term precipitation context (mean 305.9 mm/year).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single site in central Australia's semi-arid biome.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery, part of the FLUXNET Shuttle project.

Collection Method

Measurements collected via eddy covariance techniques at a 10m flux tower, with post-processing using PyFluxPro and ONEFlux.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-07 03:53:48.023096; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pine Hill cattle station, Northern Territory, Australia (GPS: -22.2870, 133.6400). A mosaic of grassy mulga woodland and Corymbia/Triodia savanna.