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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-451-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-451-2016
Research article
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29 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 29 Sep 2016

The Niwot Ridge Subalpine Forest US-NR1 AmeriFlux site – Part 1: Data acquisition and site record-keeping

Sean P. Burns, Gordon D. Maclean, Peter D. Blanken, Steven P. Oncley, Steven R. Semmer, and Russell K. Monson

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The hardware and software used to collect eddy-covariance ecosystem fluxes of carbon dioxide, heat, and water vapor at a high-elevation subalpine forest site over 17 years are described. Over time, software/hardware improvements have increased the system robustness, leading to a successful 10 Hz data-collection rate of better than 99.98 %. We also provide philosophical concepts that shaped our data system design and are applicable to many different types of environmental data collection.