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Obs Networks: AmeriFlux 2.0. Core Site/Clusters Long-term funding to > 30 core-site towers managed by 14 PI’s. One signed. Nine (32 towers) in negotiation now. Forest , woodland, grassland, wetlands, croplands NE , SW, Upper Midwest, Southeast (The West is yet to come!).
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Obs Networks: AmeriFlux 2.0 • Core Site/Clusters • Long-term funding to > 30 core-site towers managed by 14 PI’s. • One signed. Nine (32 towers) in negotiation now. • Forest, woodland, grassland, wetlands, croplands • NE, SW, Upper Midwest, Southeast • (The West is yet to come!) New Data Upload Portal Feb 12 AmeriFlux@lbl.gov • high frequency data • ½ h data (will pass to CDIAC) Breakout session ended at dinner last night at Los Cuates (24 people went!) AmeriFlux Annual Meeting Spring 2014
NEE Long term data reveal There is no average year 2004 – 2012 Rainfall 200-450 mm Santa Rita Mesquite Savanna, AZ Respiration = 230 – 390 g C m-2 Photosynthesis = 160 – 430 g C m-2
QAQC of the wholetimeseries can highlightproblems: Option 1: the Sun is dying -> Science paper and Nobel prize Option 2: my sensor is dying -> calibrate it, buy a new one, … and correct the data Technical support and QA/QC are available to all AmeriFlux sites QA/QC Contact SebastienBiraud: scbiraud@lbl.gov AmeriFlux Program email: AmeriFlux@lbl.gov AmeriFlux Program website: AmeriFlux.lbl.gov (beginning February 12)
Paul Jarvis May 1935- February 2012 Professor, University of Edinburg Fildr, FRSE, FRS, FIChF, FI Biol, FRS (Uppsala), FRS AgsFor (Stockholm)