The objective of this activity is to establish a quantitative framework that allows NACP investigators to answer the question:

Are the various measurement and modeling estimates of carbon fluxes at individual sites consistent with each other - and if not, why?


Information

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• Additional information is available on the
  Site Synthesis Wiki.
  • To obtain access, please contact Peter Thornton.
  
  
• Presentations:
  • AmeriFlux Annual Meeting (Sept. 2009)
  • AmeriFlux Annual Meeting '09 (Barr et al.)
  • Fall AGU Meeting (Schaefer et al.), 12-19-08
  • AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, 10-16-08
  • NACP Science Steering Group Meeting, 8-20-08
  Note: these are preliminary results, please do not use the PowerPoint files without checking with Peter Thornton or Kevin Schaefer.
  
  
• Description of the model data comparison:
  

  The Site Synthesis project will quantify model and observation uncertainty and bias by comparing simulated surface fluxes and biomass from multiple models to observed values at multiple sites in the AmeriFlux and Fluxnet Canada eddy covariance flux networks. The Site Synthesis will focus on the terrestrial carbon cycle, with special emphasis on reconstruction of recent carbon fluxes and biomass.

  • Site Level Protocol (11-14-08)
    Previous versions
    
  • Site Level Protocol (10-24-08)
    
  • Site Level Protocol (6-13-08)
    
  • Site Level Protocol (3-13-08)
    
• Site List (6-9-2009)
• DRAFT (6-13-2008)


• Interim Synthesis Data Policy
  
  
• Method for gap-filling met driver data
• 07-09-2008 version
  Previous versions
  
• 05-19-2008 version
  
  


• LBA-MIP Lessons Learned
  
  
• Convention for files:
  • ALMA convention for netCDF files
  • ALMA convention as applied to the LBA MIP