Data Set "FLX03_AREA_AVG" ------------------------- Revised: October 10, 2000 BOREAS Follow-on FLX-3 Area-Averaged Flux Data for NSA and SSA sites The BOREAS FLX-3 follow-on team performed calculations of area-averaged fluxes using extracted flux data from BORIS for the period 1-June-1994 through 30-September-1994 for the SSA and the NSA. In 1996, data from measurements taken from 31-May through 29-September in the SSA were used. Fluxes are used from the highest tower level at each site. One flux tower was used to represent each of the major vegetation types. For the Young Jack Pine site, the Campbell sonic anemometer was selected. The data are stored in comma separated ASCII files. Figures that accompany this documentation are stored as GIF formatted files. Acknowledge: Larry Mahrt, Dean Vickers, Jielun Sun, J. Harry McCaughey Column Name Units Column Description ----------- ----- ------------------ SITE_ID [none] The identifier assigned to the site by BOREAS, in the format SSS-TTT-CCCCC, where SSS identifies the portion of the study area: NSA, SSA, REG, TRN, and TTT identifies the cover type for the site, 999 if unknown, and CCCCC is the identifier for site, exactly what it means will vary with site type. DATE_OBS [DD-MON-YY] The date on which the data were collected. TIME_OBS_LOCAL [HHMM Local] The Local Time (Local) when the data were collected. INDEX_NUM [none] The index number of the observation. SENSIBLE_HEAT [Watts] The sensible heat flux. _FLUX [meter^-2] LATENT_HEAT_FLUX [Watts] The latent heat flux. [meter^-2] NET_RADIATION [Watts] The net radiation. [meter^-2] CO2_FLUX [micromoles] The carbon dioxide flux. [meter^-2]. [second^-1] CRTFCN_CODE [none] The BOREAS certification level of the data. Examples are CPI (Checked by PI), CGR (Certified by Group), PRE (Preliminary), and CPI-??? (CPI but questionable). REVISION_DATE [DD-MON-YY] The most recent date when the information in the referenced data base table record was revised. Data Format ----------- The data file contains numerical and character fields of varying length separated by commas. Character fields are enclosed with single apostrophe marks. There are no spaces between the fields. Each data file on the CD-ROM has four header lines of Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) code at the top. When viewed with a Web browser, this code displays header information (data set title, location, date, acknowledgments, etc.) and a series of HTML links to associated data files and related data sets. Line 5 of each data file is a list of the column names, and line 6 and following lines contain the actual data File Names ---------- The different types of files can be told apart by their extensions. The general form of the data file names is Date_Site_Name.csv. The Date_Site part of the name is 22 characters, the Name is 3 characters, and the '.csv' extension is 4 characters (for a total of 30 characters). The formats and meanings of the Date component are: YY-MM-DD : The file only contains data from a particular date YY-MM-00 : The file contains all days of a particular month YY-00-00 : The file contains all days of a particular year ALLDATES : The file contains data over all dates The formats and meanings of the Site component are: MULTIPLESITES : The file contains data over all sites SSS-CCC-TTTTT : The file contains data from a particular site SSS : the BOREAS study area identifier CCC : the abbreviated land cover type at the site TTTTT : the type of site The Name component is a 3-letter identifier for the data set. The '.csv' extension stands for 'comma separated values'.