Great Western Woodlands FLUXNET Release 2026_r1

<p>This release consists of flux tower measurements of the exchange of energy and mass between the surface and the atmospheric boundary-layer using eddy covariance techniques. Data were processed using PyFluxPro as described by Isaac et al. (2017) for the quality control and post-processing steps. The final, gap-filled product containing Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) partitioned into Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) has been produced using the ONEFlux software as described in Pastorello et al. (2020). This data set has been produced as part of the FLUXNET Shuttle project.</p> <p>The Great Western Woodlands flux station and supersite has been active since December 2012. It is located on Credo Station, 110km NNW of Kalgoorlie, WA, and is managed by CSIRO Environment.<br />The Great Western Woodlands (GWW) comprise a 16 million hectare mosaic of temperate woodland, shrubland and mallee vegetation in south-west WA. The region is extraordinary in that it has remained relatively intact since European settlement, owing to the variable rainfall and lack of readily accessible groundwater.<br />The woodland component is globally unique in that nowhere else do woodlands occur at as little as 220mm mean annual rainfall. Further, other temperate woodlands around the world have typically become highly fragmented and degraded through agricultural use.<br />The flux site is located in Salmon gum (Eucalyptus salmonophloia) woodland in the northern part of the Great Western Woodlands (GPS coordinates: -30.1913, 120.6541), at mean annual rainfall of c. 240mm.</p>