Appendix A
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Rather than have a separate FAQ, we post all answers to questions as articles in the fluxdata blog. Below is a listing of the topics and what date the explanation appeared. If you have suggestions for additional topics for the blog, or if you would like to post something to the blog, please contact us at fluxdata-support@fluxdata.org. We would be happy to help you.
Blog Post Date Topic Category
Ancillary Data Related Topics
March 2009 Per site ancillary data reports available
April 2009 Meaning of submitted by and submission date on ancillary data reports
February 2009 Redundant ancillary variable names
January 2009 USTAR_PI and DATA_COMMENT explained
Novemner 2008 Direct download of reports
September 2008 Updates to ancillary data
March 2008 URL*, INSTRUMENT*, CITATION, SITE_DESC*, and WATER_TABLE_DEPTH
February 2008 Data curators
Site/Tower Related Information
March 2009 Procedure for adding new flux sites to fluxdata.org
October 2008 Site/tower PI access to fluxdata.org
Proposal Submission and Data Access
October 2008 Proposal submission process
October 2008 Site/tower PI access to fluxdata.org
July 2008 MATLAB access to the flux data
July 2008 Proposal status indicator
April 2008 Proposal team e-mail tool to contact site/tower PIs
April 2008 Procedure for adding a co-author to a proposal (also November 2007)
Flux/Met Related Information
April 2009 Finding SWC, H20stor, and Ts in the data cube
April 2009 Units for wbal_* in the daily files
February 2008 QC column -9999 entries
February 2008 Data processing methodology
January 2008 Changes between Data Release 1 and data release 2
January 2008 Data levels explanations
December 2007 List of downloaded flux/met files
October 2007 Foken test
October 2007 Report and data cube aggregations