GDP: Guandu Nature Park Flux Station

GDP site photos

General site details

Site nameGuandu Nature Park Flux Station
AsiaFlux site codeGDP
LocationGuandu Natural Park, Taipei City, Taiwan
Position121° 28' E, 25° 07' N
Elevation4 m above sea level
Slope0 %
Terrain typeGrass marsh
Area
Fetch
ClimateCfa
Mean annual air temperature23.0 °C
Mean annual precipitation2405.1mm
Vegetation typeGrass
Dominant Species (Overstory)Brachiaria mutica (Tower 1); Phragmites australis (Tower 2)
Dominant Species (Understory)-
Canopy height1.2m (Tower 1); 3.0m (Tower 2)
Age
LAI
Soil typeClay

Observation

Meteorology

Observation items Levels/Depth Instrument
Global solar radiation(incoming) 3.5 m CNR-1
Global solar radiation (outgoing) 3.5 m CNR-1
Long-wave radiation(incoming) 3.5 m CNR-1
Long-wave radiation(outgoing) 3.5 m CNR-1
Net radiation 3.5 m CNR-1
PPFD (incoming) 3.5 m LI-190
PPFD (outgoing) -
Direct / diffuse radiation -
Direct / diffuse PPFD -
Air temperature 3.5 m HMP-45C (2010/12/21-)
J-type thermocouple (2015/10/28-)
Humidity 3.5 m HMP-45C (2010/12/21-)
Soil temperature 10cm/20cm J-type thermocouple (2011/6/1-2014/4/9)
Soil heat flux 10cm/20cm HFP01 (2011/6/1-2014/4/9)
Soil water content 10cm/20cm CS-616 (2011/10/12-)
Wind speed 3.5m YOUNG81000 (2010/11/26-2014/3/26)  CSAT-3 (2014/3/27-)
Wind direction 3.5m YOUNG81000 (2010/11/26-2014/3/26)  CSAT-3 (2014/3/27-)
Barometric pressure 3.5m LI-7500 (2010/11/26-)
Precipitation 3.5m Tipping bucket type Rain Gauge, No. 34-T (OTA KEIKI SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD., Japan)
CO2 concentration 3.5m LI-7500 (2010/11/26-)
H2O concentration 3.5m LI-7500 (2010/11/26-)

Other

Lysimeter -
Throughfall -
Sapflow -
Soil respiration -

URL

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~jjuang/

Observation Period and Data Availability

Measurement Period2010/11/26~(now) (Tower 1); 2012/12/09~2015/08/04 (Tower 2)
Measurement Frequency10Hz
Data Availability-

Contact

Jehn-Yih Juang (jjuang@ntu.edu.tw)
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
No 1 Sec 4 Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, TAIWAN

Infrastructure

Brachiaria mutica (Tower 1); Phragmites australis (Tower 2)

Research Fund

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan National Taiwan University

Publication

1. Lin K-M, Juang J-Y and Chang L-F (accepted), Improving Estimation of Bowen Ratio for Application in Air Quality Models by Integrating a Simplified Analytical Expression with Measurement Data, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

2. Lee S-C, Fan C-J, Wu Z-Y and Juang J-Y (2015) Investigating effect of environmental controls on dynamics of CO2 budget in a subtropical estuarial marsh wetland ecosystem, Environmental Research Letters,10 025005.