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Tower_team:
PI:	Tilden Meyers Tilden.Meyers@noaa.gov - NOAA/ARL
FluxContact:	Praveena Krishnan Praveena.Krishnan@noaa.gov - NOAA/ARL/ATDD
Lat, Long:	31.5907, -110.5104
Elevation(m):	1469
Network Affiliations:	AmeriFlux
Vegetation IGBP:	GRA (Grasslands: Lands with herbaceous types of cover. Tree and shrub cover is less than 10%. Permanent wetlands lands with a permanent mixture of water and herbaceous or woody vegetation. The vegetation can be present in either salt, brackish, or fresh water.)
Climate Koeppen:	Bsk (Steppe: warm winter)
Mean Annual Temp (°C):	14.85
Mean Annual Precip. (mm):	438.35
Flux Species Measured:	CO2
Years Data Collected:	2002 - Present
Years Data Available:	AmeriFlux BASE 2002 - 2011 Data Citation
Data Use Policy:	AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy¹
Description:	None supplied.
URL:	http://researchranch.audubon.org/
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AmeriFlux BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246028
Citation: Tilden Meyers (2016), AmeriFlux BASE US-Aud Audubon Research Ranch, Ver. 4-1, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246028

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ORNL DAAC. 2018. Terrestrial Ecology Subsetting & Visualization Services (TESViS) Fixed Sites Subsets. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1567

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Hashimoto, H., Wang, W., Park, T., Khajehei, S., Ichii, K., Michaelis, A.R., Guzman, A., Nemani, R.R., Torn, M., Yi, K., Brosnan, I.G. (in preparation). Subsets of geostationary satellite data over international observing network sites for studying the diurnal dynamics of energy, carbon, and water cycles.

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GeoNEX Surface Reflectance for Vegetation Indices (NDVI & NIRv)

Wang, W., Wang, Y., Lyapustin, A., Hashimoto, H., Park, T., Michaelis, A., & Nemani, R. (2022). A novel atmospheric correction algorithm to exploit the diurnal variability in hypertemporal geostationary observations. Remote Sensing, 14(4), 964.

GeoNEX Surface Downward Solar Radiation (DSR):

Li, R., Wang, D., Wang, W., & Nemani, R. (2023). A GeoNEX-based high-spatiotemporal-resolution product of land surface downward shortwave radiation and photosynthetically active radiation. Earth System Science Data, 15(3), 1419-1436.

GeoNEX Land Surface Temperature (LST):

Jia, A., Liang, S., & Wang, D. (2022). Generating a 2-km, all-sky, hourly land surface temperature product from Advanced Baseline Imager data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 278, 113105.

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2025	Xia, Y., Sanderman, J., Watts, J. D., Machmuller, M. B., Mullen, A. L., Rivard, C., Endsley, A., Hernandez, H., Kimball, J., Ewing, S. A., Litvak, M., Duman, T., Krishnan, P., Meyers, T., Brunsell, N. A., Mohanty, B., Liu, H., Gao, Z., Chen, J., Abraha, M., Scott, R. L., Flerchinger, G. N., Clark, P. E., Stoy, P. C., Khan, A. M., Brookshire, E. N., Zhang, Q., Cook, D. R., Thienelt, T., Mitra, B., Mauritz‐Tozer, M., Tweedie, C. E., Torn, M. S., Billesbach, D. (2025) Coupling Remote Sensing With A Process Model For The Simulation Of Rangeland Carbon Dynamics, Journal Of Advances In Modeling Earth Systems, 17(3), . https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004342
2021	Chu, H., Luo, X., Ouyang, Z., Chan, W. S., Dengel, S., Biraud, S. C., Torn, M. S., Metzger, S., Kumar, J., Arain, M. A., Arkebauer, T. J., Baldocchi, D., Bernacchi, C., Billesbach, D., Black, T. A., Blanken, P. D., Bohrer, G., Bracho, R., Brown, S., Brunsell, N. A., Chen, J., Chen, X., Clark, K., Desai, A. R., Duman, T., Durden, D., Fares, S., Forbrich, I., Gamon, J. A., Gough, C. M., Griffis, T., Helbig, M., Hollinger, D., Humphreys, E., Ikawa, H., Iwata, H., Ju, Y., Knowles, J. F., Knox, S. H., Kobayashi, H., Kolb, T., Law, B., Lee, X., Litvak, M., Liu, H., Munger, J. W., Noormets, A., Novick, K., Oberbauer, S. F., Oechel, W., Oikawa, P., Papuga, S. A., Pendall, E., Prajapati, P., Prueger, J., Quinton, W. L., Richardson, A. D., Russell, E. S., Scott, R. L., Starr, G., Staebler, R., Stoy, P. C., Stuart-Haëntjens, E., Sonnentag, O., Sullivan, R. C., Suyker, A., Ueyama, M., Vargas, R., Wood, J. D., Zona, D. (2021) Representativeness Of Eddy-Covariance Flux Footprints For Areas Surrounding Ameriflux Sites, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 301-302, 108350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108350
2015	Dennis Baldocchi, Cove Sturtevant (2015) Does day and night sampling reduce spurious correlation between canopy photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration?, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 207, 117-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.03.010
2012	Krishnan, P., Meyers, T. P., Scott, R. L., Kennedy, L., Heuer, M. (2012) Energy Exchange And Evapotranspiration Over Two Temperate Semi-Arid Grasslands In North America, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 153, 31-44. https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.017

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Wind Rose Explanation

A wind rose gives a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Presented in a circular format, a wind rose shows the frequency and intensity of winds blowing from particular directions. The length of each “spoke” around the circle indicates the amount of time (frequency) that the wind blows from a particular direction. Colors along the spokes indicate categories of wind speed (intensity). Each concentric circle represents a different frequency, emanating from zero at the center to increasing frequencies at the outer circles

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This information can be useful to gain insight into regions surrounding a flux tower that contribute to the measured fluxes, and how those regions change in dependence of the time of day and season. The wind roses presented here are for four periods of the year, and in 16 cardinal directions. Graphics are available for all sites in the AmeriFlux network based on reported wind measurements at each site.

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Note that wind roses are not equivalent to flux footprints. Specifically, the term flux footprint describes an upwind area “seen” by the instruments measuring vertical turbulent fluxes, such that heat, water, gas and momentum transport generated in this area is registered by the instruments. Wind roses, on the other hand, identify only the direction and speed of wind.

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The wind roses are based on observed hourly data from the sites registered with the AmeriFlux Network.

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