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Description

This dataset consists of measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in arid tussock grassland using eddy covariance techniques.

The flux station is located at Rosebank Station, approximately 11 km south-east of Longreach in Queensland. The site is arid tussock grassland with a variety of grass species including Astrebla lappacea and Astrebla squarrosa over black vertosol soil that supports sheep and beef cattle grazing. Traditional owners at this site are the Iningai people. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/mitchell-grass-rangeland-supersite/ .

This data is also available at http://data.ozflux.org.au .

Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
The Mitchell Grass Rangelands flux station is located on a property currently managed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (previously Longreach Pastoral College). Equipment and data collection are managed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and funded by TERN.

Lineage

All flux raw data is subject to the quality control process OzFlux QA/QC to generate 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 Isaac et al (2017) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017 .

Temporal coverage

From 7/24/2018

Dates

Creation date

7/24/2018

Publication date

9/20/2021

Revision date

12/16/2024

Citation information

How to cite this collection:

Rowlings, D., Grace, P. & Tucker, D. (2021): Longreach Mitchell Grass Rangeland Flux Data Collection. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. (Dataset). https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/66f65fb3-bde9-4fb3-92d3-7738b5668db4

Access data

These data can be accessed from following links:

Access metadata

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Rights and Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Keywords

Parameters

Platforms

Longreach Mitchell Grass Rangeland Flux Station

Instruments

ANZSRC - FOR

Horizontal Resolution

Point Resolution

Temporal Resolution

1 minute - < 1 hour

Topic Categories

Climatology/meteorology/atmosphere

User Defined

arid tussock grassland
eddy covariance
mgrl

People and Organisation

Authors

Co-authors

Tucker, David

Point of Contact

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Distributor's Organisation

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Publications

Publications

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Quality Assessment Scope:
If the data quality is poor, the data is filled from alternative sources. Filled data can be identified by the Quality Controls flags in the dataset. Quality control checks include (i) range checks for plausible limits, (ii) spike detection, (iii) dependency on other variables and (iv) manual rejection of date ranges. Specific checks applied to the sonic and IRGA data include rejection of points based on the sonic and IRGA diagnostic values and on either automatic gain control (AGC) or CO2 and H2O signal strength, depending upon the configuration of the IRGA. For more details, refer to Isaac et al (2017) in the Publications section, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2903-2017. For further information about the software (PyFluxPro) used to process and quality control the flux data, see https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki .

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Contacts

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
QLD 4068
Australia

Spatial coverage

Spatial description

The Mitchell Grass Rangelands flux tower is located on a property currently managed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (previously Longreach Pastoral College and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries Rosebank Research Station).