• Network: AmeriFlux
  
• Principal investigators: Yuki Hamada
  
• PI-affiliated institution: Argonne National Laboratory
  
• Primary IGBP ecosystem type: Croplands
  
• Dominant plant functional type: Broad-leaf crops
  
• Recent and historic disturbance and management events that may affect this site:
  • Agriculture: Agricultural management of any kind, such as cultivation (including tillage, plowing, or discing), harvest, irrigation, pesticides, planting, or liming
• Flux data collection:
  • Start date: March 2008
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Flux methods:
  • Chambers
  • Eddy Covariance
    
• Optical data collection:
  • Start date: June 2015
    
  • End date: Ongoing
    
• Data collection period: Continuous operation: Variable collected continuously with the reported method.
  
• Data scale: Stand
  
• Collection methods: Tower
  
• Types of data collected: Albedo (240-8104; one for each flux and optical towers), NDVI (FieldSpec 4 and Decagon sensors ), PRI (FieldSpec 4 and Decagon sensors), Solar-induced fluorescence (2016 growing season only), Spectral reflectance (FieldSpec 4), Webcam (Axis Q1604), Water Index (using FieldSpec 4 data), Directional/diffused radiation (RSR-2), Radiant temperature (IRTS-P), Canopy temperature (either soybean or corn ), Thermal infrared (stand-scale and sky measurements using 2 of IRTS-P),
  
• Publications:
  • Hamada Y, Ayers A, Matamala R, Cook D. Atmosphere-Biosphere Interaction Study Field Campaign Report. ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); 2020 Feb 1.
  • Novick KA, Ficklin DL, Stoy PC, Williams CA, Bohrer G, Oishi AC, Papuga SA, Blanken PD, Noormets A, Sulman BN, Scott RL. The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes. Nature climate change. 2016 Nov;6(11):1023-7.
  • Barr AG, Richardson AD, Hollinger DY, Papale D, Arain MA, Black TA, Bohrer G, Dragoni D, Fischer ML, Gu L, Law BE. Use of change-point detection for friction–velocity threshold evaluation in eddy-covariance studies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2013 Apr 15;171:31-45.
  • Matamala R, Jastrow JD, Miller RM, Garten CT. Temporal changes in C and N stocks of restored prairie: implications for C sequestration strategies. Ecological Applications. 2008 Sep;18(6):1470-88.

External homepage/data download: https://www.atmos.anl.gov/FERMI/index.html

Ameriflux homepage/data download: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/US-IB1