AmeriFlux AmeriFlux US-Vcm Valles Caldera Mixed Conifer

Dataset · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1246121· OSTI ID:1246121

Litvak, Marcy ^[1]

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1. University of New Mexico

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Vcm Valles Caldera Mixed Conifer. Site Description - The Valles Caldera Mixed Conifer site is located in the 1200 km2 Jemez River basin in north-central New Mexico. Common to elevations ranging from 3040 to 2740 m in the region, the mixed conifer stand, within the entirety of the tower footprint in all directions, provides an excellent setting for studying the seasonal interaction between snow and vegetation. In late May 2013, this site experienced a stand-replacing wildfire. It was a very hot fire that killed every single tree, and burned off a lot of surface organic matter. We have a big gap in fluxes from May 2013- Jan 2014. We were not even allowed in to the site until Oct 2013, and it took us 2-3 months to clean up the debris, remove burned infrastructure, have the tower structure assessed, and resinstrument the site.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). AmeriFlux; Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
• OSTI ID: 1246121
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English