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The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  • Gilberto Pastorello
  • , Carlo Trotta
  • , Eleonora Canfora
  • , Housen Chu
  • , Danielle Christianson
  • , You Wei Cheah
  • , Cristina Poindexter
  • , Jiquan Chen
  • , Abdelrahman Elbashandy
  • , Marty Humphrey
  • , Peter Isaac
  • , Diego Polidori
  • , Marcus Reichstein
  • , Alessio Ribeca
  • , Catharine van Ingen
  • , Nicolas Vuichard
  • , Leiming Zhang
  • , Brian Amiro
  • , Christof Ammann
  • , M. Altaf Arain
  • Jonas Ardö, Timothy Arkebauer, Stefan K. Arndt, Nicola Arriga, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Alan Barr, Eric Beamesderfer, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Onil Bergeron, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Daniel Berveiller, Dave Billesbach, Thomas Andrew Black, Peter D. Blanken, Gil Bohrer, Julia Boike, Paul V. Bolstad, Damien Bonal, Jean Marc Bonnefond, David R. Bowling, Rosvel Bracho, Jason Brodeur, Christian Brümmer, Nina Buchmann, Benoit Burban, Sean P. Burns, Pauline Buysse, Peter Cale, Mauro Cavagna, Pierre Cellier, Shiping Chen, Isaac Chini, Torben R. Christensen, James Cleverly, Alessio Collalti, Claudia Consalvo, Bruce D. Cook, David Cook, Carole Coursolle, Edoardo Cremonese, Peter S. Curtis, Ettore D'Andrea, Humberto da Rocha, Xiaoqin Dai, Kenneth J. Davis, Bruno De Cinti, Agnes de Grandcourt, Anne De Ligne, Raimundo C. De Oliveira, Nicolas Delpierre, Ankur R. Desai, Carlos Marcelo Di Bella, Paul di Tommasi, Han Dolman, Francisco Domingo, Gang Dong, Sabina Dore, Pierpaolo Duce, Eric Dufrêne, Allison Dunn, Jiří Dušek, Derek Eamus, Uwe Eichelmann, Hatim Abdalla M. ElKhidir, Werner Eugster, Cacilia M. Ewenz, Brent Ewers, Daniela Famulari, Silvano Fares, Iris Feigenwinter, Andrew Feitz, Rasmus Fensholt, Gianluca Filippa, Marc Fischer, John Frank, Marta Galvagno, Mana Gharun, Damiano Gianelle, Bert Gielen, Beniamino Gioli, Anatoly Gitelson, Ignacio Goded, Mathias Goeckede, Allen H. Goldstein, Christopher M. Gough, Michael L. Goulden, Alexander Graf, Anne Griebel, Carsten Gruening, Thomas Grünwald, Albin Hammerle, Shijie Han, Xingguo Han, Birger Ulf Hansen, Chad Hanson, Juha Hatakka, Yongtao He, Markus Hehn, Bernard Heinesch, Nina Hinko-Najera, Lukas Hörtnagl, Lindsay Hutley, Andreas Ibrom, Hiroki Ikawa, Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Dalibor Janouš, Wilma Jans, Rachhpal Jassal, Shicheng Jiang, Tomomichi Kato, Myroslava Khomik, Janina Klatt, Alexander Knohl, Sara Knox, Hideki Kobayashi, Georgia Koerber, Olaf Kolle, Yoshiko Kosugi, Ayumi Kotani, Andrew Kowalski, Bart Kruijt, Julia Kurbatova, Werner L. Kutsch, Hyojung Kwon, Samuli Launiainen, Tuomas Laurila, Bev Law, Ray Leuning, Yingnian Li, Michael Liddell, Jean Marc Limousin, Marryanna Lion, Adam J. Liska, Annalea Lohila, Ana López-Ballesteros, Efrén López-Blanco, Benjamin Loubet, Denis Loustau, Antje Lucas-Moffat, Johannes Lüers, Siyan Ma, Craig Macfarlane, Vincenzo Magliulo, Regine Maier, Ivan Mammarella, Giovanni Manca, Barbara Marcolla, Hank A. Margolis, Serena Marras, William Massman, Mikhail Mastepanov, Roser Matamala, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Francesco Mazzenga, Harry McCaughey, Ian McHugh, Andrew M.S. McMillan, Lutz Merbold, Wayne Meyer, Tilden Meyers, Scott D. Miller, Stefano Minerbi, Uta Moderow, Russell K. Monson, Leonardo Montagnani, Caitlin E. Moore, Eddy Moors, Virginie Moreaux, Christine Moureaux, J. William Munger, Taro Nakai, Johan Neirynck, Zoran Nesic, Giacomo Nicolini, Asko Noormets, Matthew Northwood, Marcelo Nosetto, Yann Nouvellon, Kimberly Novick, Walter Oechel, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Jean Marc Ourcival, Shirley A. Papuga, Frans Jan Parmentier, Eugenie Paul-Limoges, Marian Pavelka, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Richard P. Phillips, Kim Pilegaard, Norbert Pirk, Gabriela Posse, Thomas Powell, Heiko Prasse, Suzanne M. Prober, Serge Rambal, Üllar Rannik, Naama Raz-Yaseef, Corinna Rebmann, David Reed, Victor Resco de Dios, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Borja R. Reverter, Marilyn Roland, Simone Sabbatini, Torsten Sachs, Scott R. Saleska, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, Zulia M. Sanchez-Mejia, Hans Peter Schmid, Marius Schmidt, Karl Schneider, Frederik Schrader, Ivan Schroder, Russell L. Scott, Pavel Sedlák, Penélope Serrano-Ortíz, Changliang Shao, Peili Shi, Ivan Shironya, Lukas Siebicke, Ladislav Šigut, Richard Silberstein, Costantino Sirca, Donatella Spano, Rainer Steinbrecher, Robert M. Stevens, Cove Sturtevant, Andy Suyker, Torbern Tagesson, Satoru Takanashi, Yanhong Tang, Nigel Tapper, Jonathan Thom, Michele Tomassucci, Juha Pekka Tuovinen, Shawn Urbanski, Riccardo Valentini, Michiel van der Molen, Eva van Gorsel, Ko van Huissteden, Andrej Varlagin, Joseph Verfaillie, Timo Vesala, Caroline Vincke, Domenico Vitale, Natalia Vygodskaya, Jeffrey P. Walker, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, Huimin Wang, Robin Weber, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Wille, Steven Wofsy, Georg Wohlfahrt, Sebastian Wolf, William Woodgate, Yuelin Li, Roberto Zampedri, Junhui Zhang, Guoyi Zhou, Donatella Zona, Deb Agarwal, Sebastien Biraud, Margaret Torn, Dario Papale
    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • California State University Sacramento
    • Michigan State University
    • University of Virginia
    • TERN Ecosystrem Research Infrastructure
    • CAS - Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research
    • University of Manitoba
    • Agroscope
    • McMaster University
    • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • University of Melbourne
    • University of Antwerp
    • University of Liege
    • Finnish Meteorological Institute
    • University of California at Berkeley
    • University of Saskatchewan
    • Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige
    • Government of Quebec
    • University of Western Australia
    • Technische Universität Dresden
    • Université Paris-Saclay
    • University of British Columbia
    • University of Colorado Boulder
    • Ohio State University
    • Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
    • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    • Université de Lorraine
    • University of Utah
    • University of Florida
    • Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute
    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
    • AgroParisTech
    • Australian Landscape Trust
    • Aarhus University
    • University of Technology Sydney
    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    • United States Department of Energy
    • Université Laval
    • Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley
    • Universidade de São Paulo
    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    • CSIC
    • Shanxi University
    • HydroFocus Inc.
    • Worcester State University
    • Czech Academy of Sciences
    • Agricultural Research Corporation
    • Airborne Research Australia
    • University of Wyoming
    • Geoscience Australia
    • University of Copenhagen
    • United States Department of Agriculture
    • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
    • Virginia Commonwealth University
    • University of California at Irvine
    • Jülich Research Centre
    • University of Innsbruck
    • Henan University
    • Oregon State University
    • Charles Darwin University
    • National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
    • Wageningen University & Research
    • Northeast Normal University
    • Hokkaido University
    • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    • Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
    • University of Adelaide
    • Kyoto University
    • Nagoya University
    • University of Granada
    • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • Integrated Carbon Observation System
    • Luke Natural Resources Institute Finland
    • CAS - Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology
    • James Cook University Queensland
    • Université de Montpellier
    • Forest Research Institute Malaysia
    • University of Helsinki
    • Trinity College Dublin
    • Deutscher Wetterdienst
    • University of Bayreuth
    • CSIRO
    • University of Sassari
    • Wellesley College
    • Queen's University Kingston
    • Environmental Analytics NZ Ltd.
    • International Livestock Research Institute
    • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    • SUNY Albany
    • University of Arizona
    • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Université Grenoble Alpes
    • Harvard University
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
    • Texas A&M University
    • Universidad Nacional de San Luis
    • Indiana University Bloomington
    • University of Exeter
    • Wayne State University
    • University of Zurich
    • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    • Western Sydney University
    • Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
    • Universidade Federal da Paraíba
    • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences
    • Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora
    • University of Cologne
    • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    • Edith Cowan University
    • Sentek Pty Ltd
    • National Ecological Observatory Network
    • Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
    • Peking University
    • Monash University
    • Australian National University
    • Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
    • University of Sheffield
    • Tuscia University
    • Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
    • Lund University
    • Université de Bordeaux
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • National Research Council of Italy
    • Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement
    • European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute
    • Forestry Department of South Tyrol
    • San Diego State University
    • INRAE - UMR EcoFoG
    • Laboratoire des Sciences de Climat et de l’Environnement
    • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
    • University of Göttingen

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    Abstract

    The FLUXNET2015 dataset provides ecosystem-scale data on CO2, water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of applications, including ecophysiology studies, remote sensing studies, and development of ecosystem and Earth system models. FLUXNET2015 includes derived-data products, such as gap-filled time series, ecosystem respiration and photosynthetic uptake estimates, estimation of uncertainties, and metadata about the measurements, presented for the first time in this paper. In addition, 206 of these sites are for the first time distributed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) license. This paper details this enhanced dataset and the processing methods, now made available as open-source codes, making the dataset more accessible, transparent, and reproducible.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number225
    JournalScientific Data
    Volume7
    Issue number1
    Number of pages27
    ISSN2052-4463
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Bibliographical note

    Se author correction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00851-9

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