Summary:

The BOREAS TE-07 team collected data sets in support of its efforts to characterize and interpret information on the sap flow of boreal vegetation. The heat pulse method was used to monitor sap flow and to estimate rates of transpiration from aspen, black spruce, and mixed wood forests at the SSA-OA, MIX, SSA-OBS, and Batoche sites in Saskatchewan, Canada. Measurements were made at the various sites from May to Oct 1994, May to Oct 1995, and Apr to Oct 1996. A scaling procedure was used to estimate canopy transpiration rates from the sap flow measurements.

A guide document which includes more information about this data set can be found at https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/TE/te07sapf/comp/TE07_Sapflow.txt.

ORNL DAAC maintains information on the entire BOREAS Project.

Data Citation

Cite this data set as follows:

Hogg, E. H., and P. A. Hurdle. 1998. BOREAS TE-07 Sap Flow Data. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/334.

References:

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Data Format:

For information on Parameter/Variable Names, Variable Description/Definition, Units of Measurement, and Data File Format see this companion file https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/boreas/TE/te07sapf/comp/te07sapf.def

Document Information:

07-Dec-98 (data citation revised on 25-Sep-2002)

Document Review Date:

07-Dec-98

Document Curator:

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