OzFlux

It is part of a global network of over 150 sites where exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between terrestrial ecosystem and atmosphere are measured continuously over long periods. The intention of OzFlux is to understand mechanisms controlling exchanges of carbon, water vapor and energy between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere over a range of time and space scales.

They hope to provide data on carbon, water and nutrient balances of key ecosystems for model testing, as well as provide information to validate estimates of net primary productivity, evaporation, and energy absorption using remotely sensed radiance data. OzFlux strives to provide data to validate new developments in micrometeorological theory for fluxes and air flows in complex terrain, and provide high precision CO2 concentrations measurements for use in regional, continental and global atmospheric inverse studies of the carbon cycle.