Identification

Title

Meteorology, soil physics, and eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water exchange from a distributed network of sites across England and Wales, 2023-2024

Abstract

This dataset contains time series observations of land surface-atmosphere exchanges of sensible heat (H) and latent heat fluxes (LE), together with supporting meteorological and soil physics data obtained at six eddy covariance (EC) flux tower monitoring sites located across England and Wales. The flux monitoring sites include three croplands (two on peat, one on mineral soils), one grassland on peat, one lowland fen under conservation management, and a relatively intact upland raised bog. Data collection started in January 2023 and ended in January 2024, except for one site in Wales which ended in December 2023. Vegetation data was also collected and consist of manual measurements of canopy height, leaf area index , and biomass. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b50e7291-b668-49bb-8226-f6371e707714

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b50e7291-b668-49bb-8226-f6371e707714.zip

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b50e7291-b668-49bb-8226-f6371e707714

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b50e7291-b668-49bb-8226-f6371e707714

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.977

East bounding longitude

1.714

North bounding latitude

55.925

South bounding latitude

49.923

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2022-01-01

End position

2023-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2024-10-07

date type

creation

effective date

2024-04-03

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Eddy covariance (EC) and micrometeorological observations were made using an open-path eddy covariance system. Ancillary meteorological and soil physics observations were co-located with the eddy covariance station. Turbulent flux densities were calculated from the raw EC data using the EddyPRO® Flux Calculation Software Version 7.0.6. Quality Control of EC data involved removal of statistical outliers and tests that theoretical requirements for the successful application of the EC technique were not violated significantly. Data gaps in EC data (NEE, LE, H) and the partitioning of NEE into gross ecosystem production and total ecosystem production were performed using the REddyProc Package for R. Further details are available in the supporting documentation.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: D’Acunha, B., Arnold, S., Blake, K., Bray, G., Bodo, A., Cooper, H., Crabtree, D., Cumming, A., Evans, C. D., Field, R. H., Hudson, M., Jovani-Sancho, A. J., Rylett, D., Morrison, R. (2024). Meteorology, soil physics, and eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water exchange from a distributed network of sites across England and Wales, 2023-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b50e7291-b668-49bb-8226-f6371e707714

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8767-7772

description: ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.

function: information

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

RSPB

email address

Sophie.Arnold@rspb.org.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

RSPB

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-354X

function: information

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

RSPB

email address

rob.field@rspb.org.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0194-6872

function: information

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Fenland SOIL, UK

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

web address

https://eidc.ac.uk/

description: The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences.

function: information

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-10-15T10:54:35

Metadata language

eng