Identification

Title

Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from a permanent wetland in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2018-2020

Abstract

The data resource consists of half hourly time series of heat (latent and sensible) and trace gas (carbon dioxide and methane) fluxes obtained by eddy-covariance, gas concentrations and ancillary meteorological data (e.g. air temperature, relative humidity, pressure, photosynthetically active radiation, total incoming radiation, wind speed and direction). The data were collected at Guma Lagoon (18°57'53.01"S; 22°22'16.20"E), in the perennially flooded area of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, for the purpose of quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes over a Cyperus papyrus stand. The measurement period was 01/01/2018 to 31/12/2020. The instrumentation was installed the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; monthly maintenance and data collection visits were effected by the Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana. The research was funded through NERC grant reference NE/N015746/2 - The Global Methane Budget. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Botswana

Okavango Deleta

Africa

Permanent wetland

Cyperus papyrus

Greenhouse gases

Methane

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

21.451

East bounding longitude

23.593

North bounding latitude

-18.48

South bounding latitude

-20.128

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2018-01-01

End position

2018-01-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2021-05-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Raw data from the eddy-covariance instrumentation were processed into half-hourly fluxes using the EddyPro software package version 7.0.6 and quality controlled by Dr Helfter. An automatic weather station recorded recorded air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and wind direction, total solar radiation and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). Data from both instruments were downloaded, processed and deposited into the EIDC as a comma separted value (.csv) file.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-04-27T08:07:51

Metadata language

eng