Long-term eddy-covariance measurements of energy, water, and carbon fluxes across a savanna land-use gradient of daily intervals at Kayoro in West Africa

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This dataset provides long-term daily aggregated eddy-covariance, meteorological, radiation, and soil observations collected at the Kayoro cropland site in northern Ghana between 2013 and 2025. The observations originate from six stations representing a gradient of land-use types, including near-natural savanna (Nazinga, Mole), cropland (Kayoro), rainfed rice field (Janga), and (semi-)degraded grassland (Sumbrungu, Gorigo). Turbulent fluxes were derived from high-frequency (20 Hz) measurements using standard EC processing procedures implemented in EddyPro (v7.0.9), including despiking, coordinate rotation, spectral corrections, and Webb–Pearman–Leuning (WPL) density corrections. Quality assessment follows established stationarity and turbulence criteria, and quality flags are provided for all fluxes. The dataset is aggregated to a uniform 30-minute temporal resolution, with no gap filling applied. All variables are provided in standardized units and naming conventions consistent with FLUXNET guidelines to facilitate comparability and reuse. The dataset supports studies of land–atmosphere interactions, surface–atmosphere coupling, and the impacts of land-use and climate variability in a data-scarce region of the global tropics.

The half-hourly datasets contain the full set of processed eddy-covariance fluxes, radiation components, meteorological variables, turbulence parameters, and soil measurements. The daily datasets contain aggregated values derived from the half-hourly observations, using appropriate aggregation methods (e.g. means for state variables and fluxes, sums for precipitation).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.994811
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Provenance
Creator Hingerl, Luitpold; Guug, Samuel; Kunstmann, Harald ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 01LG2089A CONCERT-West Africa
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 75276 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-1.329 LON, 10.918 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2025-08-31T00:00:00Z