Several activities at AGU Fall 2015 for members of the AmeriFlux Community. Especially fun for this year: AmeriFlux Town Hall to kick off the AmeriFlux Network’s 20th Anniversary! That’s on… More
Yue, X., N. Unger, T. F. Keenan, X. Zhang, and C. S. Vogel. 2015. Probing the past 30-year phenology trend of US deciduous forests. Biogeosciences 12:4693-4709. doi:10.5194/bg-12-4693-2015 “Phenology is experiencing dramatic… More
The 8th Colorado Flux Course (#fluxcourse; http://www.fluxcourse.org/) was recently convened up at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Twenty-five students from across the US and globe came to hear lectures on eddy covariance, flux… More
Evapotranspiration based on equilibrated relative humidity (ETRHEQ): Evaluation over the continental U.S. From Water Resources Research 51(4),2951-2973, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016072. Copyright (2015) American Geophysical Union. Guido Salvucci’s group at Boston… More
Lianhong Gu’s book review on Terrestrial Biosphere-Atmosphere Fluxes (2014), by Russell Monson and Dennis Baldocchi, is now available at ESA 2015, Book Review, Ecology 96:1736: “Fluxes as functions of ecosystems and… More
If you missed the 2015 AmeriFlux Data and Tech Workshop, you can now view videos of several presentations from the workshop online. These presentation may be of use to AmeriFlux… More
Congratulations to Margaret Torn, AmeriFlux Management Project lead PI! Margaret received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich last Saturday, in recognition of her efforts to deeper understanding of… More
By Chad Hanson, AMP Tech Team. Many flux sites do not have access to line power, and run on solar power. This post shares my recent experience of building a simple solar system,… More
During this past AmeriFlux PI Meeting, Gil Bohrer and Tim Morin presented a live demonstration of their Portable Canopy Lidar (PCL), shown in Figure 1, which was developed by their… More
Every spring on the Sevilleta grasslands (elevation 5000 ft), strong northeast winds blow the tumbleweeds down the Rio Grande valley. The tumbleweeds stick to anything that stands out—like the AmeriFlux 3-meter flux tower,… More