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Measurement of Energy, Carbon and Water

Exchange Along California Climate Gradients


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Site (AmeriFlux code)
Tower location Data files


Latitude


Longitude


Elevation

Version 3

Matlab,
cleaned
Southern California Transect
Grassland (US-SCg)
33.737
-117.695  470 m
*v3_7.mat
Coastal Sage (US-SCs) 33.734 -117.696
 475 m
*v3_7.mat
Oak/Pine Forest (US-SCf) 33.808 -116.772 1710 m
*v3_3.mat
Pinyon/Juniper (US-SCw) 33.605 -116.455 1280 m
*v3_7.mat
Desert Chaparral (US-SCc) 33.610 -116.450 1300 m
*v3_7.mat
Desert (US-SCd) 33.652 -116.372   275 m
*v3_3.mat
Sierra Transect (Sierra Critical Zone Observatory)
Oak/Pine Woodland (US-CZ1) 37.109 -119.731
 405 m *v3_7.mat
Ponderosa Pine Forest (US-CZ2) 37.031 -119.256 1160 m *v3_7.mat
Sierran Mixed Conifer (US-CZ3) 37.067 -119.195 2015 m *v3_7.mat
Subalpine Forest (US-CZ4) 37.067
-118.987 2700 m *v3_7.mat

All coordinates are for tower in decimal degrees.

Important note for people using precipitation data. The precipitation time series in these files were collected with
unheated tipping bucket gauges; these gauges were not always ideally positioned or maintained; and little effort has
gone into cleaning these P records.  These records often provide a qualitiative indicator of whether it was raining at
the time, but should not be used for quantitative estimates of either short or long term water balance. Send mgoulden
an email if you're intersted in daily P time series for some or all of the sites.

The main files are discontinuous and have not been gap filled or filtered for calm conditions (u*).  We routinely do this
using a Matlab program Flexible Filler: Allsites_flexible_fillerV4.m

Column Headers for 30 Minute Data version3_6

Data Version: All files have been processed with our 3rd generation set of code (v3)
Data Release: v3_3 (May 2015 or earlier), v3_7 (October 2018)
Contact: mgoulden@uci.edu