The Ameriflux Measurement Component system comprises 12 soil temperature and volumetric water content (VWC) reflectometers and a set of upwelling and downwelling photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) sensors, all deployed within the fetch, or range, of the eddy correlation flux measurement system. Soil temperature and VWC sensors placed at two depths (10 and 30 cm below the vegetation layer) at six locations or microsites allow soil property inhomogeneity to be monitored across a landscape.
AMC
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Measurements
Locations
- Fixed
- AMF1
- AMF2
- AMF3
Active Instrument Locations
| Facility Name | Instrument Start Date |
|---|---|
| Central Facility, Barrow AK | 2012-08-08 |
| Oliktok Point, Alaska; AMF3 | 2014-09-11 |
| Morrison, OK (Extended) | 2016-04-04 |
Related Publications
2019
Levitan N, Y Kang, M Özdoğan, V Magliulo, P Castillo, F Moshary, and B Gross. 2019. "Evaluation of the Uncertainty in Satellite-Based Crop State Variable Retrievals Due to Site and Growth Stage Specific Factors and Their Potential in Coupling with Crop Growth Models." Remote Sensing, 11(16), 10.3390/rs11161928.
McCombs A, A Hiscox, and A Suyker. 2019. "Point-to-Grid Conversion in Flux Footprints: Implications of Method Choice and Spatial Resolution for Regional-Scale Studies." Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 172(3), 10.1007/s10546-019-00455-2.
2017
Raczka B, S Biraud, J Ehleringer, C Lai, J Miller, D Pataki, S Saleska, M Torn, B Vaughn, R Wehr, and D Bowling. 2017. "Does vapor pressure deficit drive the seasonality of δ13C of the net land-atmosphere CO exchange across the United States?" Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(8), 10.1002/2017JG003795.
Lu Y, I Williams, J Bagley, M Torn, and L Kueppers. 2017. "Representing winter wheat in the Community Land Model (version 4.5)." Geoscientific Model Development, 10(5), 10.5194/gmd-10-1873-2017.
Research Highlight
2016
Reichl K and SC Biraud. 2016. Ameriflux Measurement Component (AMC) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, DOE ARM Climate Research Facility. DOE/SC-ARM-TR-143.
2015
Xia Y, MT Hobbins, Q Mu, and MB Ek. 2015. "Evaluation of NLDAS-2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations." Hydrological Processes, 29(7), 10.1002/hyp.10299.
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