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US-xCP: NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)

Tower_team:
PI: Cove Sturtevant [email protected] - NEON
PI: David Durden [email protected] - NEON
PI: Stefan Metzger [email protected]battelleecology.org - NEON
Lat, Long: 40.8155, -104.7456
Elevation(m): 1654
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, NEON, Phenocam
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: Bsk (Steppe: warm winter)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 8.6
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 320
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H2O, Isotopes
Years Data Collected: 2016 - Present
Years Data Available:2017 - 2020   DOIs to use for Citation of Data
Description:
Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) site in north central Colorado. CPER served as part of the Shortgrass Steppe LTER from 1982-2014 and is now home ...
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URL: http://www.neonscience.org/science-design/field-sites/central-plains-experimental-range
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Acknowledgment: The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project solely funded by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by Battelle.
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US-xCP: NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)

DOIs for this site and other citation information

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: Cove Sturtevant, David Durden, Stefan Metzger (2016-) AmeriFlux US-xCP NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER), Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1579720
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1579720

Publication(s) to use for citations of site characterization

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Acknowledgements

  • The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project solely funded by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by Battelle.

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US-xCP: NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)

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US-xCP: NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)

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2019 Metzger, S., Ayres, E., Durden, D., Florian, C., Lee, R., Lunch, C., Luo, H., Pingintha-Durden, N., Roberti, J. A., SanClements, M., Sturtevant, C., Xu, K., Zulueta, R. C. (2019) From NEON field sites to data portal: a community resource for surface–atmosphere research comes online, Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 100(11), 2305-2325.

US-xCP: NEON Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)

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