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Tower_team: | |
PI: | John Knowles John.knowles@montana.edu - Montana State University |
Lat, Long: | 39.8125, -121.8135 |
Elevation(m): | 135 |
Network Affiliations: | AmeriFlux |
Vegetation IGBP: | WSA (Woody Savannas: Lands with herbaceous and other understory systems, and with forest canopy cover between 30-60%. The forest cover height exceeds 2 meters.) |
Climate Koeppen: | Csa (Mediterranean: mild with dry, hot summer) |
Mean Annual Temp (°C): | 16.5 |
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): | 650 |
Flux Species Measured: | CO2, H, H2O |
Years Data Collected: | 2023 - Present |
Years Data Available: | No data available |
Data Use Policy: | AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1 |
Description: | The tower is located on the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) and was 100% burned at relatively low severity in California's Park fire in July ... The tower is located on the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) and was 100% burned at relatively low severity in California's Park fire in July 2024. The site has been seasonally grazed (cows) in winter for the last several decades. See MoreShow Less |
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Research Topics: | Ecohydrology; Ecosystem ecology |
Acknowledgment: | — |
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First post-fire site visit
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Blue oak vegetation during spring (pre-fire)
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Looking southeast from the road
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MODIS NDVI
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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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PhenoCam Images and Derived Time Series Data
PhenoCams are high-resolution digital cameras that take repeated images of studied ecosystems and provide quantitative information about the canopy phenology. The PhenoCam Network coordinates the camera installation and data reporting/analyses across sites in the Americas, providing automated, near-surface remote sensing of canopy phenology across a range of ecosystems and climate zones. Use of PhenoCam images / data should follow the PhenoCam Data Use Policy .
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GeoNEX led by NASA Earth eXchange (NEX) is a collaborative effort for generating Earth monitoring products from the new generation of geostationary satellite sensors. GeoNEX has produced a suite of geostationary data products including surface reflectance, land surface temperature, surface solar radiation, and many others.
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GeoNEX pixels below cover the area 0.06° x 0.06° around and including site US-BgC, 39.8125, -121.8135.
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Lat: 39.8300 Long: -121.8400
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NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Resolution: 0.01° x 0.01° & 10 minutes
Coordinates for pixel: Lat: 39.8300 Long: -121.8400
NIRv Near-Infrared Reflectance of vegetation
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Coordinates for pixel: Lat: 39.8300 Long: -121.8400
DSR: Surface downward shortwave radiation
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Coordinates for pixel: Lat: 39.8300 Long: -121.8400
LST: Land Surface Temperature
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Coordinates for pixel: Lat: 39.8200 Long: -121.8400
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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.
Relevant Science Publication Citation:
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.
- 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.
- 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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