BIFoR FACE: Water–soil–vegetation–atmosphere data from a temperate deciduous forest catchment, including under elevated CO2

A Rob Mackenzie,Phillip J Blaen,Angeliki Kourmouli,Nicolai Brekenfeld,David M Hannah,Susan E Quick,Stefan Krause,Giulio Curioni,Malcolm C Press,R Liz Hamilton,Richard M Thomas,Kris M Hart,Sophie A Comer‐Warner,Sami Ullah

doi:10.1002/hyp.14096

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AbstractThe ecosystem services provided by forests modulate runoff generation processes, nutrient cycling and water and energy exchange between soils, vegetation and atmosphere. Increasing atmospheric CO2 affects many linked aspects of forest and catchment function in ways we do not adequately understand. Global levels of atmospheric CO2 will be around 40% higher in 2050 than current levels, yet estimates of how water and solute fluxes in forested catchments will respond to increased CO2 are highly uncertain. The Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) facility of the University of Birmingham's Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) is the only FACE in mature deciduous forest. The site specializes in fundamental studies of the response of whole ecosystem patches of mature, deciduous, temperate woodland to elevated CO2 (eCO2). Here, we describe a dataset of hydrological parameters – seven weather parameters at each of three heights and four locations, shallow soil moisture and temperature, stream hydrology and CO2 enrichment – retrieved at high frequency from the BIFoR FACE catchment.

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Global levels of atmospheric CO2 will be around 40% higher in 2050 than current levels, yet estimates of how water and solute fluxes in forested catchments will respond to increased CO2 are highly uncertain
We describe a dataset of hydrological parameters – seven weather parameters at each of three heights and four locations, shallow soil moisture and temperature, stream hydrology and CO2 enrichment – retrieved at high frequency from the Birmingham's Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) catchment
The BIFoR FACE facility (524803.600 N, 2180000 W, 106 m above mean sea level [amsl]) is situated in a mainly agricultural headwater catchment in the UK drained by the Wood Brook, and consists of the main elevated CO2 facility and a number of other study sites including tree planting of different age and management (Figure 1)

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We describe a dataset of hydrological parameters – seven weather parameters at each of three heights and four locations, shallow soil moisture and temperature, stream hydrology and CO2 enrichment – retrieved at high frequency from the BIFoR FACE catchment. 2.1 | The Wood Brook catchment and FACE facility

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