JapanFlux2024 MN-Skt Southern Khentei Taiga

Mongolian boreal forest merits special attention since it is located in the transitional area between the southern Siberian boreal forest and the Asian steppe zone, a vulnerable region being potentially affected by global warming and anthropogenic activities.
The measurement site was located about 25 km northeast of the Mongonmorit village in the Tov province of Mongolia.The EC flux tower was erected in March 2003 in a Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) forest on a southwest-facing gently sloping hill of the Khentii Mountains.The forest extended about 750 m to the south and extended over 800 m in other directions. Prevailing winds were from the northwest.The cold continental climate is characterized by long and cold winters, short summers which provide the greatest fraction of annual precipitation, and a wide range of daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations.The soil at the site is a spodosol (seasonal cryosol).The forest was dominated by Siberian larch, which mixed with scattered or patchy white birch (Betula platyphylla Sukach.) in some places.The turbulent fluxes of sensible heat, latent heat, CO2 were measured using the eddy covariance system.