Griffin- Aberfeldy-Scotland

Fluxnet Information
Site Name:	Griffin- Aberfeldy-Scotland
Description:	90 mi NNE of Edinburgh, intensively managed plantation, coniferous forest, mediterranean/montane climate
Status:	Active, core measurements presently being made
Country:	United Kingdom
Fluxnet Site Code:	UK-Gri

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Location
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Location

Location Information
Country:	United Kingdom
Coordinates: (Lat, Long)	56.6072, -3.7981

PI Info

Investigator Information
Investigator:	John Moncrieff j.moncrieff@ed.ac.uk University of Edinburgh Dept. of Ecology and Enviromental Research Mayfield Road Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JU 44 131 650 5402
Investigator:	Paul Jarvis rpj3@leicester.ac.uk University of Leicester Department of Biology University Road Leicester, UK LE1 7RH +44-116-223-1296

Affiliations

Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name:	IMECC
Affiliation ID:	UK-Gri
Affiliation Site Page:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/home/sites-list
Affiliation Name:	EuroFlux
Affiliation Name:	CarboEurope
Affiliation ID:	UK-Gri
Affiliation Site Page:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/newtcdc2/IMECC-TCDC_home/Sites_im.aspx#
Affiliation Name:	MARCONI

Data

FLUXNET Determined Variables
Repository

FLUXNET Determined Variables

Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevation:	343m
IGBP Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
UMD Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
NPP Land Cover:	Evergreen Needleleaf Vegetation
KGCC:	Cfb - Warm temperate fully humid with warm summer
LAI F/PAR Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Type:	Evergeen coniferous forests
Tower Height:	15m
Plant Functional Type:	Evergreen Needleleaf Trees

Repository

Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:	1996-2011
MARCONI:	http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=811
IMECC:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/

Links

Links to Additional Site Related Information
External Web Site:	http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/public/carboeur/sites/griffin.html
FTP Data Access:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/database/
Network Data Access:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/database/
Gap-filled Marconi Collection (Historical):	ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/gap_filled_marconi/

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Investigator Information
Investigator:	John Moncrieff j.moncrieff@ed.ac.uk University of Edinburgh Dept. of Ecology and Enviromental Research Mayfield Road Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JU 44 131 650 5402
Investigator:	Paul Jarvis rpj3@leicester.ac.uk University of Leicester Department of Biology University Road Leicester, UK LE1 7RH +44-116-223-1296

Location Information
Country:	United Kingdom
Coordinates: (Lat, Long)	56.6072, -3.7981

Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name:	IMECC
Affiliation ID:	UK-Gri
Affiliation Site Page:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/home/sites-list
Affiliation Name:	EuroFlux
Affiliation Name:	CarboEurope
Affiliation ID:	UK-Gri
Affiliation Site Page:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/newtcdc2/IMECC-TCDC_home/Sites_im.aspx#
Affiliation Name:	MARCONI

Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevation:	343m
IGBP Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
UMD Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
NPP Land Cover:	Evergreen Needleleaf Vegetation
KGCC:	Cfb - Warm temperate fully humid with warm summer
LAI F/PAR Land Use:	Evergreen Needleleaf Forest
Investigator Provided Vegetation Type:	Evergeen coniferous forests
Tower Height:	15m
Plant Functional Type:	Evergreen Needleleaf Trees

Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:	1996-2011
MARCONI:	http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=811
IMECC:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/

Links to Additional Site Related Information
External Web Site:	http://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/public/carboeur/sites/griffin.html
FTP Data Access:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/database/
Network Data Access:	http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/database/
Gap-filled Marconi Collection (Historical):	ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/gap_filled_marconi/

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Site Related Bibliography

Horn JE, Schulz K. 2011. Identification of a general light use efficiency model for gross primary production. Biogeosciences. 8(4):999-1021.

Sulkava M, LUYSSAERT SEBASTIAAN, ZAEHLE SÖNKE, Papale D. 2011. Assessing and improving the representativeness of monitoring networks: The European flux tower network example. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116

Glenn EP, Nagler PL, HUETE ALFREDOR. 2010. Vegetation Index Methods for Estimating Evapotranspiration by Remote Sensing. Surveys in Geophysics. 31(6):531-555.

Fisher JB, TU KEVINP, Baldocchi DD. 2008. Global estimates of the land–atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites. Remote Sensing of Environment. 112(3):901-919.

Göckede M, Foken T, Aubinet M, Aurela M, Banza J, Bernhofer C, Bonnefond JM, Brunet Y, Carrara A, Clement R et al.. 2008. Quality control of CarboEurope flux data – Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems. Biogeosciences. 5(2):433-450.

WANG YINGPING, Baldocchi D, Leuning R, Falge E, Vesala T. 2007. Estimating parameters in a land-surface model by applying nonlinear inversion to eddy covariance flux measurements from eight FLUXNET sites. Global Change Biology. 13(3):652-670.

Zierl B, Bugmann H, Tague CL. 2007. Water and carbon fluxes of European ecosystems: an evaluation of the ecohydrological model RHESSys. Hydrological Processes. 21(24):3328-3339.

Hickler T, Prentice CI, Smith B, Sykes MT, ZAEHLE SÖNKE. 2006. Implementing plant hydraulic architecture within the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15(6):567-577.

Rebmann C, Göckede M, Foken T, Aubinet M, Aurela M, Berbigier P, Bernhofer C, Buchmann N, Carrara A, CESCATTI A et al.. 2005. Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 80(2-4):121-141.

Morales P, Sykes MT, Prentice CI, Smith P, Smith B, Bugmann H, Zierl B, Friedlingstein P, Viovy N, Sabate S et al.. 2005. Comparing and evaluating process-based ecosystem model predictions of carbon and water fluxes in major European forest biomes. Global Change Biology. 11(12):2211-2233.