2016–2017年小浪底栓皮栎人工林碳水通量观测数据集

Abstract

The concern about global change has brought more attention to the role of plantations in the regional carbon and water cycle recently. Quercus variabilis is one of the most widely distributed natural tree species in China. The southern foot of Taihang Mountain is one of the key areas of forestry engineering in China. The study on the observation of water and carbon fluxes in a Quercus variabilis plantation in this area is of great significance to the development of forestry ecological engineering and the evaluation of plantation carbon sink function in China. Henan Xiaolangdi Earth Critical Zone National Research Station on the Middle Yellow River (i.e. XLD) has carried out long-term observation of and research on the carbon and water fluxes in a Quercus variabilis plantation using the eddy covariance technique since 2005. This dataset contains carbon and water flux observations and meteorological data collected from XLD from 2016 to 2017, which have been processed in accordance with the standard quality control system of ChinaFLUX. It covers the data of gross ecosystem primary productivity, ecosystem respiration, net ecosystem carbon exchange, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux and other related meteorological factors, such as air temperature, air relative humidity, vapor pressure, wind speed, wind direction, radiation, soil temperature, soil moisture, precipitation, etc. The dataset is composed of the data collected at the scales of half-hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly intervals. This dataset can provide data support for the management of plantation ecosystems and the assessment of regional carbon budgets. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in promoting data sharing and standardization management of field stations in China.