AusEFlux: Empirical upscaling of OzFlux eddy covariance flux tower data over Australia

AusEFlux (Australian Empirical Fluxes) is a high resolution (1 km) gridded estimate of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), Ecosystem Respiration (ER) and Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) over the Australian continent for the period January 2003 to June 2022.  This new estimate of Australia’s terrestrial carbon cycle provides a benchmark for assessment against Land Surface Model simulations, and a means for monitoring of Australia’s terrestrial carbon cycle at an unprecedented high-resolution.

The datasets in this repository describe the results from the EGU Biogeosciences publication "Empirical upscaling of OzFlux eddy covariance for high-resolution monitoring of terrestrial carbon uptake in Australia" 

The dataset provided here has been reprojected to 5 km resolution to facilitate easier uploading and sharing, the full resolution dataset can be provided upon request.

Each dataset contains four variables:

• "<flux>_median": represents the 'best-estimate' of a given flux, the units are gC/m^₂/mon^-1
• "<flux>_25th_percentile": represents the lower uncertainty bound, the units are gC/m^₂/mon^-1
• "<flux>_75th_percentile": represents the upper uncertainty bound, the units are gC/m^₂/mon^-1
• "spatial_ref": contains all geographic projection information. All datasets are projected in "EPSG:4326"

Important Note: In version 1.0 of this dataset, there was a mistake in the modelling of  ecosystem respiration, so that version of the dataset should not be used.  As of version 1.1 (this version), the error has been rectified.