FLUXNET2015 Dataset Readme

FULLSET Data Product

The FULLSET Data Product for the FLUXNET2015 Release includes all variables for the data product, including all quality and uncertainty variables, plus a few selected variables from the intermediate data processing steps in the data processing pipeline.

Variables in the FULLSET Data Product (all variables)

SUBSET Data Product

The SUBSET Data Product for the FLUXNET2015 Release includes all variables for the data product, including all quality and uncertainty variables, plus a few selected variables from the intermediate data processing steps in the data processing pipeline.

Variables in the SUBSET Data Product (all variables)

FLUXNET 2015 File Naming Conventions

Template:
[PUBLISHER]_[SITEID]_[PROCESSING-VERSION]_[GROUPING]_[RESOLUTION]_[FIRST-LAST-YEARS]_[SITE-CODE-VERSION].[EXT]

Examples:
FLX_US-Ha1_FLUXNET2015_SUBSET_HH_1992-2012_1-1.csv
FLX_FI-Hyy_FLUXNET2015_FULLSET_1996-2014_1-1.zip

Field definitions:
PUBLISHER: 3-character code for publisher. Possible options:
FLX: FLUXNET data product
AMF: AMP AmeriFlux data product
SITEID: FLUXNET site ID in the format CC-SSS (CC is two-letter country code, SSS is three-character site-level identifier)
PROCESSING-VERSION: Version of the processing pipeline — e.g., FLUXNET2015 is the current version
GROUPING: Grouping of variables from release included in file. Possible values:
SUBSET: Core set of variables with minimal quality and uncertainty information
FULLSET: All variables, including all quality and uncertainty information, and key variables from intermediate processing steps
RESOLUTION: Temporal resolution of data product (NOTE: only applicable to DATA files, not ARCHIVE or ZIP files). Possible values:
HH: Half-Hourly time steps
HR: Hourly time steps (NOTE: documentation for HH also applies to HR)
DD: Daily time steps
WW: Weekly time steps
MM: Monthly time steps
YY: Yearly time steps
FIRST-LAST-YEARS: First and last years of eddy covariance fluxes data in the format YYYY-YYYY
SITE-CODE-VERSION: Version string with two integer components separated by a dash (#-#). First integer indicates version of data set for the site within the scope of the release; second integer indicates version of the code of the data processing pipeline within the scope of the release used to process the data set for the site
EXT: File extension. Possible values:
csv: Comma-separated values in a text file (ASCII)
zip: Archive file with all temporal resolutions for same site and data product
nc: NetCDF (version 4) **DRAFT, DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION**