US-NR3: Niwot Ridge Alpine (T-Van West)
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| Tower_team: | |
| PI: | John Knowles John.knowles@montana.edu - Montana State University |
| AncContact: | Sarah Elmendorf Sarah.Elmendorf@Colorado.edu - University of Colorado Boulder |
| FluxContact: | Peter Blanken blanken@Colorado.edu - University of Colorado Boulder |
| Lat, Long: | 40.0520, -105.5864 |
| Elevation(m): | 3504 |
| 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: | ET (Tundra) |
| Mean Annual Temp (°C): | -2.2 |
| Mean Annual Precip. (mm): | 884 |
| Flux Species Measured: | CO2, H2O |
| Years Data Collected: | 2007 - Present |
| Years Data Available: | AmeriFlux BASE 2007 - 2024 Data Citation |
| Data Use Policy: | AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1 |
| Description: | Snow-scoured alpine tundra; Dry meadow vegetation; 3-m tower located 50 m W of US-NR4, 420 m SW of US-xNW, and 28 km west of Boulder, CO, USA. Nearby reliable ... Snow-scoured alpine tundra; Dry meadow vegetation; 3-m tower located 50 m W of US-NR4, 420 m SW of US-xNW, and 28 km west of Boulder, CO, USA. Nearby reliable daily precipitation data (NWT D1) can be found at: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/63b912a406254df036e89c84a1b59230. See MoreShow Less |
| URL: | https://nwt.lternet.edu/ |
| Research Topics: | Sublimation; Carbon cycle; Water balance; Ecosystem function in complex mountain terrain |
| Acknowledgment: | Funding was provided by National Science Foundation DEB awards 0423662, 1027341, 1637686, and 2224439 to the Niwot Ridge LTER. |
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- AmeriFlux BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1804491
Citation: John Knowles (2025), AmeriFlux BASE US-NR3 Niwot Ridge Alpine (T-Van West), Ver. 6-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1804491
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US-NR3 Clouds
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US-NR3 (L to R) Kiowa peak, Navajo preak, and Niwot peak
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US-NR3 First mountain snow/senesced vegetation
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US-NR3 Typical midwinter snow scour/wind redistribution
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US-NR3 June snow and a rotor(?) cloud. US-NR4 in background
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US-NR3 Looking southwest over Eldora ski area toward James peak
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US-NR3 Looking west toward the continental divide
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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.
- 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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