Daintree Ozflux tower site

Data from the Daintree site, Far North Queensland.
The Daintree flux station is located in the Daintree forest at the Daintree Discovery Centre. It was established in December 2008 and is managed by James Cook University.

The Daintree Discovery site is part of the FNQ Rainforest SuperSite : associated with the Daintree node, which is part of the TERN Australian SuperSite Network (ASN).

The Daintree flux station is located at the Daintree Discovery Centre, Cow Bay:
16?14'17.48"S 145?25'37.74"E

The forest is classified as complex mesophyll vine forest, there are 94 species in the core 1Ha, and average tree height is 22m. Elevation of the site is 90m and mean annual precipitation is 3935mm. The Daintree Rainforest is one of the most biodiverse forests in Australia.

The instruments are mounted on a walk-up tourist tower at 35m. Fluxes of heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide are measured using the open-path eddy flux technique. Supplementary measurements above the canopy include temperature, humidity, windspeed, wind direction, rainfall, incoming and reflected shortwave radiation and net radiation.

The 2013 and 2014 data sets have not completed Quality Control/Quality Assurance procedures , this will be achieved by 31/12/2014. Please request access to QCd data sets prior to this date through the PI.