Site locations

Observations groups have supplied 20 flux tower datasets over a wide range of built environments. Together this representes 50 years of observed data. Additionally each site includes ten year spin-up and gap-filling applied for this project using bias-corrected ERA5 data.

Data described in the paper: Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites

Data accessible to download from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7104984

Cite information used from these pages as:

Lipson, M., Grimmond, S., Best, M., Chow, W. T. L., Christen, A., Chrysoulakis, N., Coutts, A., Crawford, B., Earl, S., Evans, J., Fortuniak, K., Heusinkveld, B. G., Hong, J.-W., Hong, J., Järvi, L., Jo, S., Kim, Y.-H., Kotthaus, S., Lee, K., Masson, V., McFadden, J. P., Michels, O., Pawlak, W., Roth, M., Sugawara, H., Tapper, N., Velasco, E., and Ward, H. C.: Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites, Earth System Science Data, 14, 5157–5178, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5157-2022, 2022.

Site list

• AU-Preston: Preston, Melbourne, Australia

• AU-SurreyHills: Surrey Hills, Melbourne, Australia

• CA-Sunset: Sunset, Vancouver, Canada

• FI-Kumpula: Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland

• FI-Torni: Hotel Torni, Helsinki, Finland

• FR-Capitole: Capitole district, Toulouse, France

• GR-HECKOR: Kornarou Sqr., Heraklion (Irákleio), Crete, Greece

• JP-Yoyogi: Yoyogi, Tokyo, Japan

• KR-Jungnang: Jungnang, Seoul, South Korea

• KR-Ochang: Ochang, South Korea

• MX-Escandon: Escandon, Mexico City, Mexico

• NL-Amsterdam: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• PL-Lipowa: Lipowa Street, Łódź, Poland

• PL-Narutowicza: Narutowicza Street, Łódź, Poland

• SG-TelokKurau: Telok Kurau, Singapore (as used in model evaluation)

• SG-TelokKurau06: Telok Kurau, Singapore

• UK-KingsCollege: Kings College, London, United Kingdom

• UK-Swindon: Swindon, United Kingdom

• US-Baltimore: Cub Hill, Baltimore, United States

• US-Minneapolis1: KUOM Tall Tower, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• US-Minneapolis2: KUOM Tall Tower, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• US-WestPhoenix: West Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Notes: US-Minneapolis is split into two sites based on wind direction to account for different land cover within the eddy covariance footprint. SG-TelokKurau has two periods, one used in model evaluation, and another in the openly available flux tower dataset (SG-TelokKurau06).

Site characteristics summary