<span style="" class="text typewriter">FluxnetLSM</span> R package (v1.0): a community tool for processing FLUXNET data for use in land surface modelling
Flux towers measure ecosystem-scale surface–atmosphere exchanges of energy, carbon dioxide and water vapour. The network of flux towers now encompasses ∼ 900 sites, spread across every continent. Consequently, these data have become an essential benchmarking tool for land surface models (LSMs)....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Geoscientific Model Development |
| Online Access: | https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/3379/2017/gmd-10-3379-2017.pdf |
| Summary: | Flux towers measure ecosystem-scale surface–atmosphere exchanges of energy,
carbon dioxide and water vapour. The network of flux towers now encompasses
∼ 900 sites, spread across every continent. Consequently, these data
have become an essential benchmarking tool for land surface models (LSMs).
However, these data as released are not immediately usable for driving,
evaluating and benchmarking LSMs. Flux tower data must first be transformed
into a LSM-readable file format, a process which involves changing units,
screening missing data and varying degrees of additional gap-filling. All of
this often leads to an under-utilisation of these data in model benchmarking.
To resolve some of these issues, and to help make flux tower measurements
more widely used, we present a reproducible, open-source R package that
transforms the FLUXNET2015 and La Thuile data releases into community
standard NetCDF files that are directly usable by LSMs. We note that these data
would also be useful for any other user or community seeking to independently
quality control, gap-fill or use the FLUXNET data. |
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| ISSN: | 1991-959X 1991-9603 |