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Meeting Date: 29 Oct 2020 Participants LH, AS, RM, MG, TB (5) Talking Points

• CH-DAV PI fluxes (up to Level-4) are now available in FP2020 (1997-2019)
• Checked fluxes CO2, H2O, CH4 and N2O.
• Processing for CH-LAS will restart soon.

Info

• If you are (Tech-)SRP, please attend QA/QC meetings or tell LH if you can't, needed for planning of the meetings.
• SRP & Tech-SRP: please prepare short statement about your site and send to to LH (max. 2 sentences)
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Meeting Date: 1 Oct 2020 Participants LH, IF, AS, WE (4) Talking Points

• Amp v0.16.0-indev, a preliminary version of Amp v0.16.0, is available on the RDS. The delay since the last update was due to difficulties to get Amp running on the RDS.
• Spectral correction factors checked for various sites, no irregularities spotted.
• Checking fluxes H2O, CO2, CH4, N2O, no checks for CH-AWS.
• For CH-LAE, we discussed to include the subcanopy fluxes (CH-LAS) in the correction of the above canopy fluxes (CH-LAE) by default.
• We discussed that for the ustar threshold detection, similar temperature regimes are ... Read More

Meeting Date: 20 Aug 2020 Participants LH, IF, MG, SG, PM, RM, MS, AS (8) Info

• If you are (Tech-)SRP, please attend QA/QC meetings or tell LH if you can't, needed for planning of the meetings.
• SRP & Tech-SRP: please prepare short statement about your site and send to to LH (max. 2 sentences)
• The purpose of QA/QC meetings is to check on current, incoming data. SRPs choose specific issues we should look at together and discuss in the group. Fluxes are checked if the respective SRP wishes to do so.

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Overview of data shared for the ICOS Winter 2020 Dataset The ICOS Winter 2020 Dataset aims to help in studying ecosystem interactions both with the COVID-19 outbreak and related lock-downs and the anomalously warm winter season 2019/2020. The ecosystem research community orbiting around ICOS voluntarily created a working group, together with atmospheric and oceanic sciences colleagues, to tackle this issue in a coordinated and coherent way. The contribution of Swiss FluxNet to the ICOS Winter 2020 Dataset comprises 104 site years across 6 sites (3 grasslands, 2 forests, 1 cropland). The first version of the ICOS dataset is expected in ... Read More

An up-to-date map showing the parcels at the grassland CH-FRU was added: Maps (CH-FRU) ... Read More

Meeting Date: 25 Jun 2020 Participants LH, IF, RM, MG, AS, MS, TB (7) Info

• If you are (Tech-)SRP, please attend QA/QC meetings or tell LH if you can't, needed for planning of the meetings.
• SRP & Tech-SRP: please prepare short statement about your site and send to to LH (max. 2 sentences)
• The purpose of QA/QC meetings is to check on current, incoming data. SRPs choose specific issues we should look at together and discuss in the group. Fluxes are checked if the respective SRP wishes to do so.

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Some recent photos were added for the cropland CH-OE2: Photos (CH-OE2) ... Read More

A new page is now showing recent webcam images from Swiss FluxNet sites, updated daily. Webcams ... Read More

Meeting Date: 28 May 2020 Participants LH, SG, MG, RM, IF, AS, WE, TB (8) Info

• If you are (Tech-)SRP, please attend QA/QC meetings or tell LH if you can't, needed for planning of the meetings.
• SRP & Tech-SRP: please prepare short statement about your site and send to to LH (max. 2 sentences)
• The purpose of QA/QC meetings is to check on current, incoming data. SRPs choose specific issues we should look at together and discuss in the group. Fluxes are checked if the respective SRP wishes to do so.

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Level-1 and Level-2 fluxes for CH-DAV 2019-2020 are now available on the grasslandserver. Quick info

• 2019 fluxes are new and were calculated for the first time
• 2020 fluxes include all available fluxes up until incl. 23 April 2020, to be shared in the ICOS Winter 2020 Initiative

Further reading

• Infos about flux levels can be found here: Flux Levels
• Notes on issues during processing and info on quality control can be found here: CH-DAV / FF-202005
• Overview of available flux products from all sites here: Available Flux Products
• Search for fluxes here: Search Fluxes

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