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ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Station Team Description
This document describes the reporting of the ICOS Ecosystem station team and how the communication between ETC and different station team members will be organized. The aim is... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Water Table Depth Measurements
This document describes how to organize, set up, and collect the measurements of water table depth at ICOS ecosystem stations. The document is structured in four different... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Field-Map Instrument Use
This document describes the use of the Field-Map instrument for mapping trees and sensors in the ICOS forest sites -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Plant Species Reporting
This Instruction document describes the procedure to report plant species present in the ICOS stations to the ETC. The species classification (to be done in the field or in the... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Raw Data Format for CO2 Storage Measurements
The following document describes the accepted formatting and file structure and name for the submission of 1 Hz storage raw data in ICOS. This group of variables includes the... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Precipitation Measurements
Precipitation is one of the most important abiotic variables related to plant growth. Considering the spatial variability of precipitation in relation to the area of interest... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Radiation Measurements
at the ICOS Ecosystem Stations. The following variables are included: - Incoming short-wave radiation (SW_IN) - Outgoing short-wave radiation (SW_OUT) - Diffuse short-wave... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Ancillary Vegetation Measurements in Grasslands
This document describes the measurement of ancillary vegetation variables at ICOS ecosystem stations in grasslands. These variables include Green Area Index (GAI), Aboveground... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for AccuPAR LP-80 Ceptometer Instrument Use
This document explains Green Area Index measurements with the AccuPAR LP-80 PAR/LAI Ceptometer, here simply called AccuPAR, at ICOS ecosystem stations. It describes how to set... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Air Meteorological Measurements (TA, RH, PA, ...
Several meteorological variables need to be measured at ICOS monitoring stations in order to characterize them, analyse the drivers explaining GHG fluxes, and properly... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Raw Data Format for CO2 Eddy Covariance Measu...
The following document describes the accepted formatting and file structure and name for the submission of continuous eddy covariance raw data in ICOS. This group of variables... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Soil Meteorological Measurements (TS, SWC, G)
This document describes how to organize, set up, and collect the measurements of soil-meteorological variables at ICOS ecosystem stations. These variables are soil temperature,... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Site Characterization Measurements in Mires
This document describes the measurements to perform at mire stations for the characterization of the site investigated. These measurements are performed at the beginning of the... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Foliar Samples Collection and LMA Ratio Deter...
The nutritional status of the canopy foliage in terms of macronutrients (C, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn) has a strong influence on the carbon cycle and energy balance of... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Site Characterization Measurements in Forest
This document describes the measurements to perform at the beginning of the ICOS forest station operation in order to characterize the site investigated. These characterization... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Station and Site Description
The “Station description and historical information” instruction document contains guidelines to acquire and report all the descriptive information required to characterize the... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Setting Up the Spatial Sampling Scheme
The ecosystem stations in ICOS have a number of sampling points and plots that are used to perform repeated measurements in time and to characterize the soil and vegetation of... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Ancillary Vegetation Measurements in Mires
This Instruction document describes the measurement of Green Area Index (GAI) and Aboveground Biomass (AGB) at ICOS ecosystem stations in mires. The focus of these Instructions... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Raw Data Format for Meteorological Measurements
The following document describes the accepted formatting and file structure and name for the submission of continuous low-frequency (seconds to minute) meteorological raw data... -
ICOS Ecosystem Instructions for Use the ICOS BADM
The ICOS BADM (Biological, Ancillary, Disturbance and Metadata) is the system used to submit non-continuous data, metadata and information to the ICOS ETC. It is based on an...