Water, Energy and Carbon Fluxes at an Urban Golf Course in Phoenix, 2019-2020

Encanto Park Golf Course in Phoenix, Arizona, provides water, energy, and carbon flux measurements alongside meteorological and NDVI data from March 2019 to March 2020. The dataset includes three Excel files with hourly and half-hourly measurements from an AZMET station and an eddy covariance system. It was created by researchers from Arizona State University and requires citation of the associated 2020 research paper.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban oasis effects on local microclimate based on water and energy flux data.
• Analyzing seasonal trends in carbon sequestration based on eddy covariance flux measurements.
• Correlating vegetation health (NDVI) with evaporative losses based on remote sensing and flux data.
• Studying diurnal cycles of meteorological variables like air temperature and soil temperature mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data spans a full annual cycle from March 2019 to March 2020.
• Includes measurements from a recognized meteorological network (AZMET) and a processed eddy covariance system.
• Combines three distinct data types: meteorological variables, biophysical fluxes, and remote-sensing derived NDVI.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Arizona State University (Mercedes Kindler) via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Instrument measurements from an AZMET station and an eddy covariance tower, with NDVI derived from PlanetScope satellite imagery.

Time Range

March 2019 to March 2020

Geography

Encanto Park Golf Course, Phoenix, Arizona, USA