AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-SCd Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert

Dataset · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1419505· OSTI ID:1419505

Goulden, Mike ^[1]

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1. University of California - Irvine

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-SCd Southern California Climate Gradient - Sonoran Desert. Site Description - Half hourly data are available at https://www.ess.uci.edu/~california/. This site is one of six Southern California Climate Gradient flux towers operated along an elevation gradient (sites are US-SCg, US-SCs, US-SCf, US-SCw, US-SCc, US-SCd). This site is a low desert site in Southern California's rain shadow; the climate is extremely dry and hot. The site has experience repeated droughts, with negligible rainfall during several years of the record.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). AmeriFlux; University of California - Irvine
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/PER
• OSTI ID: 1419505
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English