Tumbarumba, in the Bago State Forest, has been part of the OzFlux network since March 2000, and is one of the few southern hemisphere sites that has provided records for longer than a decade of the weather, climate, net uptake of CO2 and loss of water via evapotranspiration. Bago is a managed, open wet sclerophyll eucalyptus forest, and the partnership between OzFlux and the Australian SuperSite Network is expected to improve understanding of how logging practices affect the amount of carbon and water entering, stored in and leaving the forest, and how these factors in turn influence the ecosystem as a whole.
Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite flux tower site
Apart from continuously measuring the exchanges of carbon dioxide and water vapour between the forest and the atmosphere, Tumbarumba has been the site of various intensive measurement campaigns to improve our understanding on how airflow, terrain and forest structure affect the way the ecosystem takes up and releases carbon and uses water. As part of this effort CSIRO has carried out independent measurements of carbon pools, stocks and turnover rates. These measurements, along with atmospheric fluxes, have been used to improve the surface–vegetation–atmospheric–transfer (SVAT) models. SVAT models describe how energy, carbon and water are exchanged between land and atmosphere, and Tumbarumba has played a major role in improving SVAT modelling in Australia over the last decade.
Tumbarumba has also been a key site for measuring the important effects that vegetation has on the lower atmosphere, including the exchange of heat, and the production of particles and chemical species that are highly reactive and contribute to the formation of aerosols. A large international campaign provided measurements of the characteristics and dynamics of atmospheric ions, aerosol particles, and their precursors.
Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite in winter
Detailed observations on leaf area index taken from both hemispherical photography and forest structure measurements using Echidna have been used to evaluate plant growth and canopy cover. Echidna is a ground-based laser that scans a full hemisphere from a point on the forest floor and is used for ecological assessment and to estimate wood volume and forest growth. This is complemented by data on above-ground biomass taken through airborne LIDAR surveys carried out by AusCover. The LIDAR data, in combination with hyperspectral data, offer the means to look at forest disturbance after harvest.
The Tumbarumba flux station is supported by TERN, CSIRO and the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) through the Australian Climate Change Science Program(ACCSP).
Source TERN Newsletter
CosmOz Soil Moisture Sensor - Tumbarumba
Continuous soil-moisture measurements are collected by cosmic ray soil moisture sensors at the Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite. These sensors are operated by CSIRO and the Australian CosmOz network which is aligned with the international COSMOS (Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System) network. These sensors detect fast neutrons released when water interacts with cosmic rays originating from outer space and provide average soil moisture over an area of about 30 ha to a depth of up to 40cm. Each system comprises a data logger, neutron detector, tipping bucket rain gauge and three surface moisture probes with data logged every 60 minutes. CosmOz data can be accessed from the CSIRO data portal.
CosmOz sensor an example of the soil moisture data output.
Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite Ancillary Datasets
Airborne LiDAR Survey, TERN AusCover - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, 201110
Airborne Hyperspectral Survey, TERN AusCover - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, 20110407
SLATS Star Transects, TERN AusCover - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, 20101124
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2001
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TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2003
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2004
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2005
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TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2008
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TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2010
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2011
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2012
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2013
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2014
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2015
TERN OzFlux Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite, Tumbarumba OzFlux site, 2016
FLUXNET Eddy Covariance Data - Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite
TERN OzFlux at the Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite
OzFlux maintains the flux tower instrumentation that continuously measures exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy between the terrestrial ecosystem and atmosphere.
Flux data is available from the OzFlux data portal
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