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CD32_Fluxes_Brazil_1842·v2·dataset

Carbon and water exchange at forest towers, Amazon 1999-2006

LBA-ECO CD-32 Flux Tower Network Data Compilation, Brazilian Amazon: 1999-2006, V2
atmosphere NASA ORNL_CLOUD Level 3 Text File
In plain English

What it measures. Ground-based measurements of carbon dioxide and energy exchange between Amazon forests and the air, alongside weather, radiation, humidity, soil moisture, and soil temperature.

How it's made. Compiled and harmonized from nine flux towers across the Brazilian Amazon run by various projects between 1999 and 2006, with added quality checks and summaries at hourly to monthly steps.

How & where you'd use it. Lets researchers study how Amazon forests breathe and exchange carbon and energy, and serves as a common reference for combining field data with models.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY › CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS › ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDEBIOSPHERE › ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS › ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS › RESPIRATION RATEATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE › SURFACE TEMPERATURE › AIR TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › SURFACE WINDSATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION › NET RADIATIONATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION › HEAT FLUX

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1999-01-01 → 2006-12-31
  • Measured byMETEOROLOGICAL STATIONS (ANEMOMETERS, IRGA, PYRANOMETERS)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-62.36, -21.62, -47.65, -1.74
  • FormatsText File
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

This dataset is a compilation of carbon and energy eddy covariance flux, meteorology, radiation, canopy temperature, humidity, CO2 profiles and soil moisture and temperature profile data that were collected at nine towers across the Brazilian Amazon. Independent investigators provided the data from a variety of flux tower projects over the period 1999 thru 2006. This is Version 2 of the tower data compilation, where the data have been harmonized across projects, additional quality control checks were performed, and have been aggregated to hourly, daily, 16-day, and monthly timesteps. This integrated dataset is intended to facilitate integrative studies and data-model synthesis from a common reference point.

Get the data

cd32_fluxes_brazil_1842_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="CD32_Fluxes_Brazil_1842",
    version="2",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from ORNL_CLOUD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.