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US-SCd: Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert

Tower_team:
PI: Mike Goulden mgoulden@uci.edu - University of California - Irvine
Lat, Long: 33.6518, -116.3721
Elevation(m): 275
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux
Vegetation IGBP: BSV (Barren Sparse Vegetation: Lands exposed soil, sand, or rocks and has less than 10% vegetative cover during any time of the year.)
Climate Koeppen: —
Mean Annual Temp (°C): —
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): —
Flux Species Measured: CO2
Years Data Collected: 2007 - Present
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 2006 - 2014   Data Citation
Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux Legacy Policy
Description:
Half hourly data are available at https://www.ess.uci.edu/~california/. This site is one of six Southern California Climate Gradient flux towers operated ...
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US-SCd: Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert

Use the information below for citation of this site. See the Data Policy page for more details.

DOI(s) for citing US-SCd data

Data Use Policy: AmeriFlux Legacy Policy

  • AmeriFlux BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1419505
    Citation: Mike Goulden (2018), AmeriFlux BASE US-SCd Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert, Ver. 1-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1419505

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US-SCd: Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert

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BADM for This Site

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US-SCd: Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert

Wind Roses

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  • Image scale: 845m x 845m
  • Data Collected:
    • Wind roses use variables ‘WS’ and ‘WD’.
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    Wind Speed (m/s)

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  • Wind Speed Scale
  • Wind Direction Scale (%)
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    • Annual Average
    About Ameriflux Wind Roses
    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
    Utility
    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.
    Data from each site can be downloaded by clicking the ‘download’ button.
    Hover the cursor over a wind rose to obtain directions, speeds and intensities.
    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.
    Where do these data come from?
    The wind roses are based on observed hourly data from the sites registered with the AmeriFlux Network.
    Parameters for AmeriFlux Wind Roses
    To use wind roses for a single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Per Site
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): Per Site
    To compare wind roses from more than one single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Non-Linear
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): AmeriFlux
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