Field Notes

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Tonzi: 2007-08-31 17:40:00 (DOY 243)
Author: Youngryel Ryu
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In 31 Aug 2007, I went to Tonz/Vairai sites by myself. I measured spectral reflectance and LAI. At Vaira site, I only measured reflectance around LED sensor and the flux tower. All grass is dead so I did not measure under trees. For Tonzi site, I measured reflectance in reference 1&2 grasses and LAI around tram system. Unfortunatelly, sky was quite cloudy espcecially around sun. It made difficult to measure reflectance, and I realized all collected data showed unreasoable values (i.e. reflectance>1). I was very sad to lose all data, but I got a lesson that I should check weather forecase before planning to head to the field site. Extremely dry and hot. Cloudy sky, moderate wind at the top of flux tower. Tram did work. I left Berkeley 14:15, arrived in Vaira 17:00 (heavy traffic jam), arrived Tonzi 17:40, and left Tonzi 20:20.

Field Data

No tank data

No TZ Well data found

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

No TZ Tree DBH found

No water potential data found

No TZ Grass Biomass data found

No TZ OakLeaves Biomass data found

No TZ PineNeedles Biomass data found

22 photos found

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Reference 1 grass at Tonzi

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Reference 2 grass at Tonzi

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Leaves of a blue oak

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Around tram. It did work

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Tonzi flux site

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From the top of flux tower

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From the top of flux tower. A pyranometer, net radiometer and PAR sensor

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From the top of flux tower. See the clouds around Vaira site

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View of oak savanna with dirt road and dead grass from tower top

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From the top of flux tower

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From the top of flux tower

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From the top of flux tower

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View of oak savanna with from tower top

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Reference 2 grass

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Reference 1 grass

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Matching two LAI2000 sensors

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Two LAI2000 sensors

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See the shadows. Sun was moviong to the horizon. LAI around tram was 0.74

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Solar zenith angle approaced to 90 degree

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Prof. John Battle's group installed litterfall traps around flux tower but not around tram!