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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

Tower_team:
PI: Dean Anderson deander@usgs.gov - U.S. Geological Survey
DataManager: George Griffin ggriffin@usgs.gov - U.S. Geological Survey
Lat, Long: 40.0325, -105.5469400
Elevation(m): 3030
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: Dfc (Subarctic: severe winter, no dry season, cool summer)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 0.43
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 595.37
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H, H2O, CH4
Years Data Collected: AmeriFlux: 2000 - 2016
Description: The Niwot Ridge site is located in a subalpine, temperate coniferous forest on land owned by the U.S. Forest Service.
URL: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/science/abl/forest/
Research Topics: Horizontal and vertical advection of CO2 and CH4.
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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

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ORNL DAAC. 2018. MODIS and VIIRS Land Products Fixed Sites Subsetting and Visualization Tool. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1567

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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

Year Publication
2009 Burns, S. P., Delany, A. C., Sun, J., Stephens, B. B., Oncley, S. P., Maclean, G. D., Semmer, S. R., Schröter, J., Ruppert, J. (2009) An Evaluation Of Calibration Techniques For In Situ Carbon Dioxide Measurements Using A Programmable Portable Trace-Gas Measuring System, Journal Of Atmospheric And Oceanic Technology, 26(2), 291-316.
2012 Ruehr, N. K., Martin, J. G., Law, B. E. (2012) Effects Of Water Availability On Carbon And Water Exchange In A Young Ponderosa Pine Forest: Above- And Belowground Responses, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 164, 136-148.
2017 Euskirchen, E. S., Bret-Harte, M. S., Shaver, G. R., Edgar, C. W., Romanovsky, V. E. (2017) Long-Term Release Of Carbon Dioxide From Arctic Tundra Ecosystems In Alaska, Ecosystems, 20(5), 960-974.

US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

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US-NR2: Niwot Ridge Forest (USGS site)

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