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Long-term meteorological and carbon, water and energy flux data from the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites, Saskatchewan, Canada
| Description: | Long-term observations are presented here from the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS), a network of flux tower research sites located near the southern edge of the Boreal Plains Ecozone in central Saskatchewan, Canada. The four longest running sites, which represent the dominant vegetation types in the Boreal Plains Ecozone, include three mature forest stands of trembling aspen (Old Aspen; OA), black spruce (Old Black Spruce; OBS), and jack pine (Old Jack Pine; OJP), and a minerotrophic patterned fen (Fen). The data reported here include long-term records of a) meteorological variables, including air temperature and humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction and precipitation; b) vertical profiles of soil temperature and soil volumetric water content; c) radiation flux densities, including net radiation, incoming and outgoing shortwave radiation, incoming and outgoing longwave radiation, and incoming and outgoing photosynthetically active radiation; d) the surface energy balance, including net radiation, soil heat flux, biomass heat storage flux, photosynthetic energy flux and eddy covariance measurements of latent and sensible heat flux densities; and e) eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem production and its partition into gross ecosystem photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration. There are both gap-filled and non-gap-filled datasets included with this submission. Other variables collected from these sites, but are not included in the dataset, can be made available upon request (snow depth, snow temperature, bole temperature, water table depth, water table level). |
| Authors: | Helgason, Warren; University of Saskatchewan;  0000-0002-7068-5717Johnson, Bruce; University of Saskatchewan; 0000-0001-9013-5774David, Cody; University of Saskatchewan Barr, Alan; University of Saskatchewan; 0000-0003-2717-218XBlack, Andrew; University of British Columbia; 0000-0002-7494-9767 |
| Keywords: | boreal forest black spruce jack pine trembling aspen boreal fen meteorology surface radiation surface energy balance eddy covariance |
| Field of Research: | Environmental engineering and related engineering > Other environmental engineering and related engineering > Other environmental engineering and related engineering
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| Publication Date: | 2024-10-24 |
| Publisher: | Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche |
| Funder: | Environment Canada Canadian Forest Service Natural Science and Engineering Research Council; Fluxnet-Canada Research Network Canada Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Research; Fluxnet-Canada Research Network BioCap Canada; Fluxnet-Canada Research Network Canada Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science; Canadian Carbon Program Canada Excellence Research Chairs; Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security; 214685 NSERC Climate Change and Atmospheric Research Initiative; Changing Cold Regions Network; 433923-2012 NSERC Discovery Grants Program; Carbon Sequestration in Forests Canada 150 Research Chair; Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing Canada Foundation for Innovation; Global Water Futures Observatories; 42687 |
| URI: | https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01063 |
| Geographic Coverage: | Place Name Old Aspen City Prince Albert National Park Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory Country Canada Place Name Old Jack Pine Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory Country Canada Place Name Old Black Spruce Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory Country Canada Place Name Fen Province / Province / Territory Saskatchewan Territory Country Canada |
| Geographic Point: | Latitude 53.629 Longitude -106.198 Latitude 53.916 Longitude -104.692 Latitude 53.987 Longitude -105.118 Latitude 53.802 Longitude -104.618 |
| Appears in Collections: | Global Water Futures |
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Helgason, W., Johnson, B., David, C., Barr, A., Black, A. (2024). Long-term meteorological and carbon, water and energy flux data from the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites, Saskatchewan, Canada. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/103.01063
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