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| PI: | George Valentine george.valentine@usda.gov - US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station |
| PI: | John Frank john.frank@usda.gov - US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station |
| Lat, Long: | 39.1006, -105.1024 |
| Elevation(m): | 2367 |
| Network Affiliations: | AmeriFlux |
| Vegetation IGBP: | ENF (Evergreen Needleleaf Forests: Lands dominated by woody vegetation with a percent cover >60% and height exceeding 2 meters. Almost all trees remain green all year. Canopy is never without green foliage.) |
| Climate Koeppen: | Dfb (Warm Summer Continental: significant precipitation in all seasons ) |
| Mean Annual Temp (°C): | 5 |
| Mean Annual Precip. (mm): | 368.47 |
| Flux Species Measured: | CO2, H2O |
| Years Data Collected: | 2023 - Present |
| Years Data Available: | AmeriFlux BASE 2024 Data Citation |
| Data Use Policy: | AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1 |
| Description: | This site was established on an existing 30-m tower structure at the Forest Service's Manitou Experimental Forest, Colorado. Manitou Experimental Forest ... This site was established on an existing 30-m tower structure at the Forest Service's Manitou Experimental Forest, Colorado. Manitou Experimental Forest is located approximately 38 km northwest of Colorado Springs, within the Pike National Forest. The tower was constructed and used between 2008 and 2013 by NCAR for the BEACHON project and has line power and internet connections. The tower is located in approximately 12 km^2 of ponderosa pine forest and savannah with a land use history of thinning and prescribed burning, though these disturbances have not occurred for many years. The tower is situated in a broad, flat valley that drains to the north. Early research at the site was focused mainly on grazing, while more recently it has turned broadly to the ecology and management of ponderosa pine ecosystems. In 2002, the Hayman Fire burned approximately 56,000 ha to the west and northwest of the tower location. See MoreShow Less |
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| Research Topics: | Drought, fire, CO2 and H2O fluxes |
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DOI(s) for citing US-MEF data
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- AmeriFlux BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/2567984
Citation: John Frank, George Valentine (2025), AmeriFlux BASE US-MEF Manitou Experimental Forest, Ver. 1-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/2567984
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| Date | Name | Data Product | Version | Intended Use | Intended Use Description | Download Count |
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| 2025-06-10 | Kwanghun Choi | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | I am conducting the research about the absorptivity of canopy and I want to refer your radiation data below the canopy. | 1 |
| 2025-06-09 | Alex Crookshanks | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Land model/Earth system model | Data-driven modeling, for training models and cross-validation [amerifluxr download] | 2 |
| 2025-06-09 | Lu Yang | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Education (Teacher or Student) | ET | 5 |
| 2025-06-06 | zhang zhaoyang | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | analyze the impact of fire | 1 |
| 2025-06-05 | (unknown user_id) | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Education (Teacher or Student) | study | 2 |
| 2025-06-04 | Michael Goulden | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | Exploring relationships between Landsat VIs and flux observations | 1 |
| 2025-06-04 | Sungyoon Kim | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | For land-atmosphere studies with AmeriFLUX | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | Ulrike Egerer | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | Compare to model results | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | Wolfram Schlenker | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Other | CO2 and agricultural yields | 3 |
| 2025-05-28 | Bokyung Son | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | Developing remote sensing-based carbon flux data, validation of data-driven flux. | 1 |
| 2025-05-27 | yong liu | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Land model/Earth system model | For model validation results | 2 |
| 2025-05-26 | luo jing | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Other | 毕业设计 | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | wenhan lv | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | use to research | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | Zhang teng | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | It is used for conducting scientific research related to evapotranspiration | 2 |
| 2025-05-25 | wenhan lv | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | use to research | 1 |
| Date | Name | Data Product | Vers. | Intended Use | Intended Use Description | Download Count |
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| 2025-06-10 | Kwanghun Choi | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | I am conducting the research about the absorptivity of canopy and I want to refer your radiation data below the canopy. | 1 |
| 2025-06-09 | Alex Crookshanks | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Land model/Earth system model | Data-driven modeling, for training models and cross-validation [amerifluxr download] | 2 |
| 2025-06-09 | Lu Yang | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Education (Teacher or Student) | ET | 5 |
| 2025-06-06 | zhang zhaoyang | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | analyze the impact of fire | 1 |
| 2025-06-05 | (unknown user_id) | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Education (Teacher or Student) | study | 2 |
| 2025-06-04 | Michael Goulden | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | Exploring relationships between Landsat VIs and flux observations | 1 |
| 2025-06-04 | Sungyoon Kim | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | For land-atmosphere studies with AmeriFLUX | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | Ulrike Egerer | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Multi-site synthesis | Compare to model results | 1 |
| 2025-06-03 | Wolfram Schlenker | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Other | CO2 and agricultural yields | 3 |
| 2025-05-28 | Bokyung Son | AmeriFlux BASE | 1-5 | Research - Remote sensing | Developing remote sensing-based carbon flux data, validation of data-driven flux. | 1 |
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US-MEF US-MEF looking north
Image of the US-MEF tower looking north.
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Location: Colorado, United States
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US-MEF Upper flux setup looking northwest
Image taken from the top of the tower looking northwest at the upper eddy flux setup. Visible instruments are LI-COR 7200RS and Campbell Scientific CSATB. Anemometer is aimed at 270 degrees.
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MODIS NDVI
The time series shows the 16-day Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) average from the MOD13Q1 data product.
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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 .
No PhenoCam data for this siteGeoNEX Data Products
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.
The GeoNEX Common Grid locates GeoNEX data in the geographic (latitude/longitude) projection. Pixels (grid cells) are created at regular 0.005°, 0.01°, and 0.02° resolutions.
GeoNEX pixels below cover the area 0.06° x 0.06° around and including site US-MEF, 39.1006, -105.1024.
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This material can be used without obtaining permission from NASA. NASA should be acknowledged as the source of this material.
Subset Data Citation:
- 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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