Eddy covariance data measured at the CAP LTER flux tower located in the west Phoenix, AZ neighborhood of Maryvale from 2011-12-16 through 2012-12-31

The CAP LTER maintains a flux tower to facilitate neighborhood-scale investigations of atmospheric processes in a Phoenix, AZ suburb. Capitalizing on comprehensive measurements of energy (heat and radiation) and matter (water and carbon dioxide) exchanges between the atmosphere and the urban surface, this project adds significantly to research investigating how urbanization affects local weather, climate, and air quality. An antenna-mounted array of sophisticated sensors measuring temperature, humidity, and wind speed and direction at high temporal resolutions facilitates the calculation of energy and material fluxes. The residential setting where the tower is positioned was selected on account of the homogeneous building design (single-story, single-family, detached dwellings) representative of many neighborhoods throughout the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. To avoid the influence of localized turbulence and material fluxes created by anomalous surface objects, the antenna extends vertically approximately 75 ft to sample neighborhood-scale fluxes. This dataset contains 30-minute post-processed eddy covariance data measured at the CAP LTER tower located in the west Phoenix neighborhood of Maryvale from Dec 16 2011 to Dec 31 2012.