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Brooks Field Site 11

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Site Name: Brooks Field Site 11
Description: The Brooks Field Site 11 - Ames Site is one of three sites (Brooks Field Site 10 and Brooks Field Site 1011) located in a corn/soybean agricultural landscape of central Iowa. The farming systems, associated tillage, and nutrient management practices for soybean/corn production are typical of those throughout Upper Midwest Corn Belt. All three sites are members of the AmeriFlux network. Information for all three can be found in synchronous pages of this website.
Status: Active, core measurements presently being made
Country: United States
Fluxnet Site Code: US-Br3

Additional Information

Location

Location Information
Country: Iowa, United States
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		41.9747, -93.6936

PI Info

Investigator Information
Investigator: John Prueger
National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment
Soil, Water, and Air Resources Research Unit
2110 University Boulevard
Ames, Iowa, USA 50011-3120
515-294-7694
Investigator: Tim Parkin
USDA
National Soil Tilth Laboratory
2150 Pammel Drive
Ames, IA 50014
(515) 294-6888

Affiliations

Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: AmeriFlux
Affiliation ID: us.ames_tl11.01
Affiliation Site Page: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/Site_Info/siteInfo.cfm?KEYID=us.ames_tl11.01

Data

FLUXNET Determined Variables

Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 313m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Croplands
UMD Land Usemore info: Croplands
NPP Land Covermore info: Annual Broadleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Dfa - Snow with fully humid hot summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Broadleaf Crops
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Soybean/corn annual rotation: corn (C4) 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and soybean (C3) 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
Tower Heightmore info: 5m
Plant Functional Typemore info: Broadleaf crop

Repository

Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:2001-2011
AmeriFlux: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/dataproducts.shtml

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Investigator Information
Investigator: John Prueger
National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment
Soil, Water, and Air Resources Research Unit
2110 University Boulevard
Ames, Iowa, USA 50011-3120
515-294-7694
Investigator: Tim Parkin
USDA
National Soil Tilth Laboratory
2150 Pammel Drive
Ames, IA 50014
(515) 294-6888
Location Information
Country: Iowa, United States
Coordinates:
(Lat, Long) 		41.9747, -93.6936
Affiliation Information
Affiliation Name: AmeriFlux
Affiliation ID: us.ames_tl11.01
Affiliation Site Page: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/Site_Info/siteInfo.cfm?KEYID=us.ames_tl11.01
Site Information
GTOPO30 Elevationmore info: 313m
IGBP Land Usemore info: Croplands
UMD Land Usemore info: Croplands
NPP Land Covermore info: Annual Broadleaf Vegetation
KGCCmore info: Dfa - Snow with fully humid hot summer
LAI F/PAR Land Usemore info: Broadleaf Crops
Investigator Provided Vegetation Typemore info: Soybean/corn annual rotation: corn (C4) 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and soybean (C3) 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
Tower Heightmore info: 5m
Plant Functional Typemore info: Broadleaf crop
Data Repository Information
Data Collection Timeframe:2001-2011
AmeriFlux: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/dataproducts.shtml
Links to Additional Site Related Information
MODIS Visualization: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/MODIS/GR_col5_1/siteselection.pl?now3=get_site_table_2&siteid=808
External Web Site: http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/agecosys/iameet/parkin.htm
FTP Data Access: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/nstl_flux/
Daymet Data Download: http://daymet.ornl.gov/data/send/query?lat=41.97471944&lon=-93.69357222
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Site Related Bibliography

Chávez JL, Neale CMU, Hipps LE, Prueger JH, Kustas WP.  2005.  Comparing Aircraft-Based Remotely Sensed Energy Balance Fluxes with Eddy Covariance Tower Data Using Heat Flux Source Area Functions. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 6(6):923-940.