Macdonald, B., Stenson, M., Antille, D., Kitchen, M., Brown, Z. & Nadelko, A. (2025). Myall Vale A (Dryland) Flux Data Collection. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/a466d85c-3fac-47ca-81e0-d4b3bb25cbcc
Myall Vale A (Dryland) Flux Data Collection
Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: onGoing
Update Frequency: biannually
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Dataset Created: 2023-11-15
Dataset Published: 2025-07-07
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This dataset consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer in a farming area using eddy covariance techniques.
The Myall Vale A site is located on a privately owned dryland field near Boggabri New South Wales. The terrain is flat and elevation of the site is close to 240 m above mean sea level.
The flux tower was commissioned on 15/11/2023.
The Myall Vale A site is located on a privately owned dryland field near Boggabri New South Wales. The terrain is flat and elevation of the site is close to 240 m above mean sea level.
The flux tower was commissioned on 15/11/2023.
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 site is managed by the CSIRO.
Purpose
The purpose of the Myall Vale A Flux Station is to:
- Develop and ground-truth the APSIM model.
- Develop and ground-truth satellite based evapotranspiration models at pixel to catchment scale.
- Complement and infill gaps in agricultural flux datasets in the treatments and locations being measured
- Along with soil carbon and plant biomass data provide input for carbon balance research.
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.
Some versions of this data may not include data from 15/11/2023 up until 29/11/2023.
Some versions of this data may not include data from 15/11/2023 up until 29/11/2023.
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The Myall Vale A (Dryland) site is located on a dryland field near Boggabri New South Wales.
Temporal Coverage
From 2023-11-15 to on going
Spatial Resolution
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Vertical Extent
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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.
For further information about the software (PyFluxPro) used to process and quality control the flux data, see https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki.
Data Quality Report
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Data Quality Assessment Outcome
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ANZSRC - FOR
GCMD Sciences
Horizontal Resolution
Instruments
Parameters
Platforms
Temporal Resolution
User Defined
AU-MvA
crop
dryland agriculture
Eddy Covariance
Contact Point
Principal Investigator
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia.
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