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Tower_team:
PI: Rodrigo Vargas rvargas@udel.edu - University of Delaware
Lat, Long: 39.0882, -75.4372
Elevation(m): 6.7
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux, Phenocam
Vegetation IGBP: WET (Permanent Wetlands: Lands with a permanent mixture of water and herbaceous or woody vegetation that cover extensive areas. The vegetation can be present in either salt, brackish, or fresh water)
Climate Koeppen: Cfa (Humid Subtropical: mild with no dry season, hot summer)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 13.5
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 1121
Flux Species Measured: CO2, CH4, H, H2O
Years Data Collected: 2015 - Present
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 2014 - 2017   Data Citation

AmeriFlux FLUXNET 2015 - 2017   Data Citation

Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1
Description:
This tower is located in St Jones, near Dover Delaware. This area is part of the National Estuarine Research Reserve. It was established in 1993, and estuarine ...
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Research Topics: Understanding carbon dynamics in a temperate tidal marsh
Acknowledgment: Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation (#1652594) and we acknowledge onsite support from the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR),
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  1. This site’s data can also be used under the more restrictive AmeriFlux Legacy Policy.
    The AmeriFlux Legacy Policy must be followed if this site’s data are combined with data from sites that require the AmeriFlux Legacy Policy.
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Site Publication More Site Publications
Vázquez-Lule, A., Vargas, R. 2021. Biophysical Drivers Of Net Ecosystem And Methane Exchange Across Phenological Phases In A Tidal Salt Marsh, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 300, 108309.

Use the information below for citation of this site. See the Data Policy page for more details.

DOI(s) for citing US-StJ data

Data Use Policy: AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 License

This site’s data can also be used under the more restrictive AmeriFlux Legacy Policy.
The AmeriFlux Legacy Policy must be followed if US-StJ data are combined with data from sites that require the AmeriFlux Legacy Policy.

  • AmeriFlux BASE: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1480316
    Citation: Rodrigo Vargas (2020), AmeriFlux BASE US-StJ St Jones Reserve, Ver. 2-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/1480316
  • AmeriFlux FLUXNET: https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/2229390
    Citation: Rodrigo Vargas (2023), AmeriFlux FLUXNET-1F US-StJ St Jones Reserve, Ver. 3-5, AmeriFlux AMP, (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.17190/AMF/2229390

Find global FLUXNET datasets, like FLUXNET2015 and FLUXNET-CH4, and their citation information at fluxnet.org.

To cite BADM when downloaded on their own, use the publications below for citing site characterization. When using BADM that are downloaded with AmeriFlux BASE and AmeriFlux FLUXNET products, use the DOI citation for the associated data product.

Publication(s) for citing site characterization

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2022 Capooci, M., Vargas, R. (2022) Diel And Seasonal Patterns Of Soil Co2 Efflux In A Temperate Tidal Marsh, Science Of The Total Environment, 802, 149715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149715
2022 Hill, A. C., Vargas, R. (2022) Methane And Carbon Dioxide Fluxes In A Temperate Tidal Salt Marsh: Comparisons Between Plot And Ecosystem Measurements, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(7), . https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006943
2022 Capooci, M., Vargas, R. (2022) Trace Gas Fluxes From Tidal Salt Marsh Soils: Implications For Carbon–Sulfur Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, 19(19), 4655-4670. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4655-2022
2021 Hill, A. C., Vázquez-Lule, A., Vargas, R. (2021) Linking Vegetation Spectral Reflectance With Ecosystem Carbon Phenology In A Temperate Salt Marsh, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 307, 108481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108481
2021 Vázquez-Lule, A., Vargas, R. (2021) Biophysical Drivers Of Net Ecosystem And Methane Exchange Across Phenological Phases In A Tidal Salt Marsh, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 300, 108309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108309
2021 Chu, H., Luo, X., Ouyang, Z., Chan, W. S., Dengel, S., Biraud, S. C., Torn, M. S., Metzger, S., Kumar, J., Arain, M. A., Arkebauer, T. J., Baldocchi, D., Bernacchi, C., Billesbach, D., Black, T. A., Blanken, P. D., Bohrer, G., Bracho, R., Brown, S., Brunsell, N. A., Chen, J., Chen, X., Clark, K., Desai, A. R., Duman, T., Durden, D., Fares, S., Forbrich, I., Gamon, J. A., Gough, C. M., Griffis, T., Helbig, M., Hollinger, D., Humphreys, E., Ikawa, H., Iwata, H., Ju, Y., Knowles, J. F., Knox, S. H., Kobayashi, H., Kolb, T., Law, B., Lee, X., Litvak, M., Liu, H., Munger, J. W., Noormets, A., Novick, K., Oberbauer, S. F., Oechel, W., Oikawa, P., Papuga, S. A., Pendall, E., Prajapati, P., Prueger, J., Quinton, W. L., Richardson, A. D., Russell, E. S., Scott, R. L., Starr, G., Staebler, R., Stoy, P. C., Stuart-Haëntjens, E., Sonnentag, O., Sullivan, R. C., Suyker, A., Ueyama, M., Vargas, R., Wood, J. D., Zona, D. (2021) Representativeness Of Eddy-Covariance Flux Footprints For Areas Surrounding Ameriflux Sites, Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, 301-302, 108350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108350
2020 Trifunovic, B., Vázquez‐Lule, A., Capooci, M., Seyfferth, A. L., Moffat, C., Vargas, R. (2020) Carbon Dioxide And Methane Emissions From A Temperate Salt Marsh Tidal Creek, Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(8), . https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005558
2019 Capooci, M., Barba, J., Seyfferth, A. L., Vargas, R. (2019) Experimental Influence Of Storm-Surge Salinity On Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions From A Tidal Salt Marsh, Science Of The Total Environment, 686, 1164-1172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.032
2020 Feagin, R. A., Forbrich, I., Huff, T. P., Barr, J. G., Ruiz‐Plancarte, J., Fuentes, J. D., Najjar, R. G., Vargas, R., Vázquez‐Lule, A., Windham‐Myers, L., Kroeger, K. D., Ward, E. J., Moore, G. W., Leclerc, M., Krauss, K. W., Stagg, C. L., Alber, M., Knox, S. H., Schäfer, K. V., Bianchi, T. S., Hutchings, J. A., Nahrawi, H., Noormets, A., Mitra, B., Jaimes, A., Hinson, A. L., Bergamaschi, B., King, J. S., Miao, G. (2020) Tidal Wetland Gross Primary Production Across The Continental United States, 2000–2019, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(2), . https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006349

BADM for This Site

Access the Biological, Ancillary, Disturbance and Metadata (BADM) information and data for this site.

BADM contain information for many uses, such as characterizing a site’s vegetation and soil, describing disturbance history, and defining instrumentation for flux processing. They complement the flux/met data.

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Wind Roses

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  • Image scale: 788m x 788m
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  • Wind roses use variables ‘WS’ and ‘WD’.
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    Wind Speed (m/s)

  • Graph Type
  • Wind Speed Scale
  • Wind Direction Scale (%)
  • Show Satellite Image
  • Show Wind Rose
  • Annual Average
    About Ameriflux Wind Roses
    Wind Rose Explanation
    wind rose gives a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Presented in a circular format, a wind rose shows the frequency and intensity of winds blowing from particular directions. The length of each “spoke” around the circle indicates the amount of time (frequency) that the wind blows from a particular direction. Colors along the spokes indicate categories of wind speed (intensity). Each concentric circle represents a different frequency, emanating from zero at the center to increasing frequencies at the outer circles
    Utility
    This information can be useful to gain insight into regions surrounding a flux tower that contribute to the measured fluxes, and how those regions change in dependence of the time of day and season. The wind roses presented here are for four periods of the year, and in 16 cardinal directions. Graphics are available for all sites in the AmeriFlux network based on reported wind measurements at each site.
    Data from each site can be downloaded by clicking the ‘download’ button.
    Hover the cursor over a wind rose to obtain directions, speeds and intensities.
    Note that wind roses are not equivalent to flux footprints. Specifically, the term flux footprint describes an upwind area “seen” by the instruments measuring vertical turbulent fluxes, such that heat, water, gas and momentum transport generated in this area is registered by the instruments. Wind roses, on the other hand, identify only the direction and speed of wind.
    Where do these data come from?
    The wind roses are based on observed hourly data from the sites registered with the AmeriFlux Network.
    Parameters for AmeriFlux Wind Roses
    To use wind roses for a single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Per Site
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): Per Site
    To compare wind roses from more than one single AmeriFlux site, the following parameters may be most useful:
    • Wind Speed Scale: Non-Linear
    • Wind Direction Scale (%): AmeriFlux
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