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Site ID: US-Bi1
Sheet: SiteGeneralInfo


Site tower team member name (First Last/Family).: Dennis Baldocchi
Site tower team member role: PI (LIST(TEAM_ROLE))
Site tower team member email: Baldocchi@berkeley.edu
Site tower team member institution (required for PI only): Uc berkeley
Site tower team member address (not required):
Site tower shipping address:
Network affiliation(s) of the site.: AmeriFlux (LIST(NETWORK))
Method used to measure the flux variables: Eddy Covariance (LIST(FLUX_METHOD))
Flux variable measured: CO2 (LIST(FLUX_VARIABLE))
Date when data collection for the reported flux variable/method started.: 2016081116 (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
Date when data collection for the reported flux variable/method ended: (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
Operational status of flux measurements.: Continuous operation (LIST(FLUX_OPERATIONS))
Flux measurements comments:
State or province: CA (LIST(STATE_PROVINCE))
Short description of the site characteristics and history: Drained peat and subsided soils. Corn before alfalfa. Alfalfa is 3 years old
Site research topics:
Site funding agencies/institutions (one column only): Dept water resources
Latitude of the site.: 38.09854734 (decimal deg ref WGS84)
Longitude of the site: -121.49930477 (decimal deg ref WGS84)
Elevation of the site above sea level: -2.7 (m)
Begin date of the location information: 20160811 (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
Location information comments: Approximate location from google map
Vegetation type based on the IGBP definition.: CRO (LIST(IGBP))
Date when this vegetation type first applied: 20160811 (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
Vegetation type comments: Alfalfa
Land ownership type: private (LIST(LAND_OWNERSHIP))
Land owner: Metropolitan water district
Tower web site URL (maintained by tower team): (URL)
Papers relevant for understanding the site:
DOI of the reference:
Suggested use of the reference: NONE (LIST(REFERENCE_USAGE))
Brief description of paper relevance or other comments:
Acknowledgement text (88 character limit):
Additional information about the acknowledgement:
Offset from UTC of site data: (hours)
Begin date of the UTC offset: (YYYYMMDDHHMM)
Offset from UTC comments:
Climatological long-term mean annual average air temperature: 16 (degrees C)
Climatological long-term mean annual average precipitation: 338 (mm)
K�ppen climate classification: Csa (LIST(CLIMATE_KOEPPEN))
Slope and/or relief of the site: Flat (LIST(TERRAIN))
Direction the site is facing (Exposure): FLAT (LIST(ASPECT))
Prevailing wind direction: W (LIST(DIR))
Distance for which the ecosystem is homogeneous in the prevailing wind direction.: 1000 (m)
Days per year that the site is covered by snow: (days)
Recent and historic disturbance and management events that affect the tower site years of measurement: Agriculture (LIST(DIST_MGMT))
Type of physical tower structure used in the site: walk-up (LIST(TOWER_TYPE))
How the eddy covariance system is powered: Solar panels (LIST(TOWER_POWER))
 
 

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