Wombat State Forest Flux Tower Measurements 2010-2016

Comprising flux tower measurements of energy and mass exchange between a forest surface and the atmosphere using eddy covariance techniques. The data were processed with PyFluxPro to produce gap-filled products including Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), and Ecosystem Respiration (ER). The site is a secondary re-growth forest in Australia with automated soil greenhouse gas flux measurements from 2010 to 2016.

Use Cases

• Partition Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) using the PyFluxPro-processed data.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes in relation to the site's cool-temperate to Mediterranean climate with wet winters and dry summers.
• Model forest carbon dynamics using gap-filled NEE data from a secondary re-growth Eucalyptus forest with a 25m average canopy height.
• Study the impact of forest management practices like selective harvesting on long-term flux measurements from 2010 to 2016.

Strengths

• Data processing uses the established PyFluxPro (v3.4.17) pipeline as described by Isaac et al. (2017), producing a final, gap-filled product.
• Includes coherent automated measurements of soil greenhouse gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) from 2010 to 2016.
• Site metadata is detailed, specifying dominant tree species, average canopy height (25m), soil type, climate classification, and mean annual air temperature (12.1°C).

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and file size is unknown, limiting assessment of dataset scale and granularity.
• Data collection for soil greenhouse gas fluxes ended in 2016, which may limit analysis of recent trends.
• The dataset format includes HTML and PNG files, which may require extraction or conversion for standard tabular analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Flux tower measurements using eddy covariance techniques, processed with PyFluxPro software. Automated soil greenhouse gas fluxes were collected using a trailer-mounted FTIR spectrometer.

Time Range

2010 to 2016 for soil greenhouse gas fluxes. Flux tower measurement height was adjusted in January 2017.

Freshness

The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-20, but the primary measurement time range is 2010-2016.

Geography

Wombat State Forest, Australia. The site is a secondary re-growth forest last harvested in 1980.