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TI: FLUXNET: A Global Network of Eddy-Covariance Flux Towers
AU: * Cook, R B
EM: cookrb@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Divisin P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6038 United States
AU: Holladay, S K
EM: holladaysk@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Divisin P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6038 United States
AU: Margle, S M
EM: marglesm@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Divisin P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6038 United States
AU: Olsen, L M
EM: olsenlm@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Divisin P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6038 United States
AU: Gu, L
EM: lianhong-gu@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Divisin P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6038 United States
AU: Heinsch, F
EM: faithann@ntsg.umt.edu
AF: University of Montana, College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT 59812 United States
AU: Baldocchi, D
EM: biomet@nature.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: The FLUXNET global network was established to aid in understanding the mechanisms controlling the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy across a variety of terrestrial ecosystems. Flux tower data are also being used to validate ecosystem model outputs and to provide information for validating remote sensing based products, including surface temperature, reflectance, albedo, vegetation indices, leaf area index, photosynthetically active radiation, and photosynthesis derived from MODIS sensors on the Terra and Aqua satellites. The global FLUXNET database provides consistent and complete flux data to support global carbon cycle science. Currently FLUXNET consists of over 210 sites, with most flux towers operating continuously for 4 years or longer. Gap-filled data are available for 53 sites. The FLUXNET database contains carbon, water vapor, sensible heat, momentum, and radiation flux measurements with associated ancillary and value-added data products. Towers are located in temperate conifer and broadleaf forests, tropical and boreal forests, crops, grasslands, chaparral, wetlands, and tundra on five continents. Selected MODIS Land products in the immediate vicinity of the flux tower are subsetted and posted on the FLUXNET Web site for 169 flux-towers. The MODIS subsets are prepared in ASCII format for 8-day periods for an area 7 x 7 km around the tower.
UR: http://daac.ornl.gov/fluxnet/
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting