Multi-site, multi-crop measurements in the soil–vegetation–atmosphere continuum: a comprehensive dataset from two climatically contrasting regions in southwestern Germany for the period 2009–2018

• Published in: Earth system science data Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1153 - 1181
• Main Authors: Weber, Tobias K. D, Ingwersen, Joachim, Högy, Petra, Poyda, Arne, Wizemann, Hans-Dieter, Demyan, Michael Scott, Bohm, Kristina, Eshonkulov, Ravshan, Gayler, Sebastian, Kremer, Pascal, Laub, Moritz, Nkwain, Yvonne Funkiun, Troost, Christian, Witte, Irene, Reichenau, Tim, Berger, Thomas, Cadisch, Georg, Müller, Torsten, Fangmeier, Andreas, Wulfmeyer, Volker, Streck, Thilo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 11.03.2022; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Annual precipitation; Atmosphere; Biomass; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Climate; Climate change; Continuity (mathematics); Crops; Data models; Datasets; Developmental stages; Ecosystems; Eddy covariance; Energy; Heat flux; Heat transfer; Humidity; Investigations; Leaf area; Leaf area index; Local climates; Mean temperatures; Moisture content; Nitrogen; Nitrogen content; Observatories; Phenology; Plant cover; Precipitation; Resolution; Soil; Soil profiles; Soil properties; Soil temperature; Soil water; Temperature; Vegetation; Water content; Germany
• ISSN: 1866-3516; 1866-3508; 1866-3516
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-1153-2022

We present a comprehensive, high-quality dataset characterizing soil-vegetation and land surface processes from continuous measurements conducted in two climatically contrasting study regions in southwestern Germany: the warmer and drier Kraichgau region with a mean temperature of 9.7 .sup." C and annual precipitation of 890 mm and the cooler and wetter Swabian Alb with mean temperature 7.5 .sup." C and annual precipitation of 1042 mm. In each region, measurements were conducted over a time period of nine cropping seasons from 2009 to 2018. The backbone of the investigation was formed by six eddy-covariance (EC) stations which measured fluxes of water, energy and carbon dioxide between the land surface and the atmosphere at half-hourly resolution. This resulted in a dataset containing measurements from a total of 54 site years containing observations with a multitude of crops, as well as considerable variation in local growing-season climates.