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US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

Tower_team:
PI: Marcy Litvak [email protected] - University of New Mexico
DataManager: Tomer Duman [email protected] - University of New Mexico
Technician: Mikael Schlumpf [email protected] - Universtiy of New Mexico
Lat, Long: 35.9193, -106.6142
Elevation(m): 2752
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, Phenocam
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): 4.6
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 550.93
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H2O
Years Data Collected: 2016 - Present
Years Data Available:2016 - 2019   DOIs to use for Citation of Data
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URL: http://www.litvaklab.org/new-subalpine-mixed-conifer-us-vcs.html
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US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

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Citations: For data, use the DOI citation. For site characterization, use the site publication. For funding, use acknowledgments.

DOIs to use for Citation of Data

  • AmeriFlux
  • Citation: Marcy Litvak (2016-) AmeriFlux US-Vcs Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer, Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1418681
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1418681

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US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

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US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

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. 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-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

Year Publication
2020 Knowles, J. F., Scott, R. L., Biederman, J. A., Blanken, P. D., Burns, S. P., Dore, S., Kolb, T. E., Litvak, M. E., Barron‐Gafford, G. A. (2020) Montane Forest Productivity Across A Semiarid Climatic Gradient, Global Change Biology, 26(12), 6945-6958.
2019 Remy, C. C., Krofcheck, D. J., Keyser, A. R., Litvak, M. E., Collins, S. L., Hurteau, M. D. (2019) Integrating Species‐Specific Information In Models Improves Regional Projections Under Climate Change, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(12), 6554-6562.

US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

BADM for This Site

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US-Vcs: Valles Caldera Sulphur Springs Mixed Conifer

Wind Roses

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    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.
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    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
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