An eddy covariance dataset of carbon and water fluxes in a Phragmites australis wetland in the Yellow River Delta (2011–2018)

Wetland ecosystems play an important role in mitigating global climate change. The long-term monitoring of carbon and water fluxes based on eddy covariance (EC) would be helpful to better protect and utilize ecosystem services of wetlands. However, related data and studies focusing on carbon and water fluxes in wetland ecosystems are still limited. Hence, there is an urgent need to provide more observational data for researchers. Yellow River Delta Ecological Research Station of Coastal Wetland, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has established an open-path EC system in a Phragmites australis wetland in 2010 and obtained large amounts of flux data to date. In this paper, the EC-based dataset consisted ecosystem-scale carbon and water fluxes at the study site from 2011 to 2018. Moreover, all the data were shown at four time scales, i.e., half-hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly. This dataset is of great importance for estimating carbon and water fluxes in wetland ecosystems and examining the flux variations at different time scales.