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Ecosystem flux data from the Ti Tree East flux station, located on Pine Hill cattle station in the Northern Territory. The site was established in July 2012 and is managed by the University of Technology Sydney.Pine Hill Station is a functioning cattle station that has been in operation for longer than 50 years. However, the east side has not been stocked in over three years. The site is a mosaic of the primary semi-arid biomes of central Australia: grassy mulga woodland and Corymbia/Triodia savanna.The woodland is characterised by a mulga (Acacia aneura) canopy, which is 4.85 m tall on average. The soil is red sand overlying an 8 m deep water table. Elevation of the site is 553 m above sea level, and the terrain is flat.Mean annual precipitation at the nearby (30 km to the south) Bureau of Meteorology station is 305.9 mm but ranges between 100 mm in 2009 to 750 mm in 2010. Predominant wind directions are from the southeast and east.The instrument mast is 10 m tall. Fluxes of heat, water vapour and carbon are measured using the open-path eddy covariance technique at 9.81 m.Supplementary measurements above the canopy include temperature and humidity (9.81 m), windspeed and wind direction (8.28 m), downwelling and upwelling shortwave and longwave radiation (9.9 m).Precipitation is monitored in the savanna (2.5m). Supplementary measurements within and below the canopy include barometric pressure (2 m).Belowground soil measurements are made beneath Triodia, mulga and grassy understorey and include ground heat flux (0.08 m), soil temperature (0.02 m – 0.06 m) and soil moisture (0 – 0.1 m, 0.1 – 0.3 m, 0.6 – 0.8 m and 1.0 – 1.2 m).Lineage
All flux raw data is subject to quality control process OzFlux QA/QC to generate QA/QC data from L1 to L6. Levels 3 to 6 are available for re-use. Datasets contain Quality Controls flags which will indicate when data quality is poor and has been filled from alternative sources. For more details, refer to journal article: OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017Notes
CreditJames Cleverly (2013 ) Ti Tree East OzFlux Site OzFlux: Australian and New Zealand Flux Research and Monitoring hdl: 102.100.100/14225
Created: 25 03 2013
Issued: 25 03 2013
Modified: 23 03 2018
Data time period: 2010-09-03 to 2017-11-01
text: northlimit=-22.283; southlimit=-22.283; westlimit=133.249; eastLimit=133.249
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Journal article (An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux)
doi :
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016
Journal article...describes the data sets, along with their quality control and post-processing... (OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation)
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