RCN: The FLUXNET Global Network Assessing Spatial-Temporal Variability of Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor and Energy Fluxes Between the Terrestrial Biosphere and Atmosphere

这个全球网络称为FLUXNET，通过涡动相关法测量植被与大气之间的二氧化碳、水蒸气和能量交换，研究植被的呼吸。目前，在Ameriflux、CarboEuroflux、AsiaFlux和ChinaFlux等区域网络的主持和支持下，正在全世界300多个地点测量涡流通量和一系列气象、土壤和植物变量。 FLUXNET的作用是将分布式网络集成和统一到一个全球网络中。 当作为一个群体合并时，FLUXNET扩大了与其组成区域网络相关的生物群落、气候区域、干扰和土地利用处理的多样性。 该网络产生的数据将用于研究许多问题，测量和综合结果对于理解气候变化的影响和评估减缓从陆地到大气的碳通量增加的努力具有高度相关性。 它提供了一个衡量哪些地区正在吸收碳，哪些地区正在向大气中流失碳的标准。

The global network, called FLUXNET, studies the breathing of vegetation by measuring the exchange of carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy between vegetation and the atmosphere with the eddy covariance method. At present, eddy fluxes and a suite of meteorological, soil and plant variables, are being measured at over 300 sites world-wide, through the auspices and support of regional networks like Ameriflux, CarboEuroflux, AsiaFlux and ChinaFlux. FLUXNET plays the role of integrating and uniting the distributed networks into a global network. When combined as a group, the FLUXNET expands the diversity of biomes, climate regions, disturbance and land use treatment that are associated with its constituent regional networks. The data produced by the network will be used to examine many questions.The measurements and synthesis are highly relevant to understanding implications of climate change and evaluating efforts to mitigate increasing carbon flux from the land to the atmosphere. It provides a measure of which areas are sequestering carbon and which are losing carbon to the atmosphere.