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Data Items and Units for Flux Meteorology Data

At this time, we have none of completely established data processing method, especially in eddy covariance fields. Herein, your registered data will be likely to be modified by new processing, QC/QA and gap-filling methods. AsiaFlux committee is open and receptive to your modified data in a realistic way. It means that you can always replace your old data (previous version) by the update data (latest version). Note that the version of the document file is same as your update counts.

On the other hand, the AsiaFlux DB user must make clear the version of their accessing dataset. AsiaFlux committee tries hard to keep everyone informed about the importance of "version" of the dataset.

Abbreviation for observation items and units
Item Symbol Unit Remarks
Year Year - dominical year (AD): #### (YYYY)
Date DOY - Day of year: 1`365(6)
Time TIME - ####(HHMM)
e.g. AM 8:00 -> 0800, PM1:30 -> 1330
CO2 flux Fc micro mol·m-2·s-1 Vertical transportation velocity of CO2 above a canopy
CO2 storage in canopy air layer Sc micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Net ecosystem CO2 exchange NEE micro mol·m-2·s-1 NEE = Fc + Sc
Sensible heat flux H W·m-2 -
Latent heat flux LE W·m-2 -
Water vapor flux E mmol·m-2·s-1 -
Friction velocity USt m·s-1 -
Momentum flux TAU m2·s-2 -
Atmospheric stability parameter ZL - -
Global solar radiation (incoming) Rg W·m-2 -
Global solar radiation (outgoing) Rg_out W·m-2 -
Long-wave radiation (incoming) Rgl W·m-2 -
Lomg-wave radiation (outgoing) Rgl_out W·m-2 -
Net Radiation Rn W·m-2 -
Albedo Alb - SAlb = Soil albedo,
LAlb = Litter albedo,
CAlb = Canopy albedo
Direct Radiation Rb W·m-2 -
Diffuse Radiation Rd W·m-2 -
Photosynthetic active radiation flux density PPFD micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Transmitted PAR TPAR micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Reflected PAR RPAR micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Absorbed PAR APAR micro mol·m-2·s-1 APAR = PPFD - RPAR - TPAR
Direct PPFD PPFDb micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Diffuse PPFD PPFDd micro mol·m-2·s-1 -
Wind direction WD(s) Degree Wind direction : Rotating clockwise from north
If your wind direction and wind speed are observed by a sonic anemometer, please suffix "s" at the foot of "WD" or "WS", i.e. WDs or WSs, respectively.
Wind speed WS(s) m·s-1
Barometric pressure Pa kPa -
Air temperature Ta degrees C -
Relative humidity Rh % -
Vapor pressure deficit VPD kPa -
Vapor pressure VP kPa -
H2O concentration Ho mmol·mol-1 -
Precipitation PPT mm -
Through fall TF mm -
Stem flow SF mm -
Bole temperature Tbole degrees C -
Radiation temperature Tr degrees C -
Heat storage in canopy air layer Sa W·m-2 -
Heat storage in canopy biomass Sc W·m-2 -
Heat storage in water body Sw W·m-2 -
CO2 concentration Co micro mol·mol-1 -
Soil temperature Ts degrees C -
Water temperature Tw degrees C -
Ground heat flux G W·m-2 -
water level WL mm -
Soil water content SWC m3·m-3 -
Depth of active layer
(Thaw depth)
THAWD m -
Snow depth SNOWD m -
Leaf area index LAI m2·m-2 -
Canopy height
(Vegetation height)
HEIGHTC
(HEIGHTV)
m -

The blank column (missing data) should be filled with "-99999".
Items observed at multiple heights/depths are distinguished by adding the height/depth just after the abbreviation with under bar ("_"). (e.g. Ta_3.5m, Ta_0.6m, Ts_5cmCTs_20cm)