Simone Sabbatini
Simone Sabbatini has a PhD in Forest Ecology, obtained in 2014 at the DIBAF department of the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. His background consists in a BSC in Forestry and Environmental Science, and a MSC in Management of Forestry Systems, both held at the University of Florence, Italy. Currently he is a Researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), where he is involved in the activities of the ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Center (ETC), dealing with giving support to the ICOS stations concerning eddy covariance measurements, meteorological data collection, data and metadata file submission, as well as contributing to the implementation of new variables for CAL/VAL activities at ICOS stations. He coordinates the processing of FLUXNET sites from China, Japan and South Korea in the FLUXNET Data System Initiative. In addition, he is also supervising the activities of PhD students at the DIBAF.
Sessions
The collaboration among PIs of eddy covariance sites, Research Infrastructures and Regional Data Hubs gave birth to a new system for sharing globally distributed, standardized flux tower datasets: the FLUXNET Data System Initiative. The system is a milestone for the ecosystem flux community and its stakeholders (e.g. satellite and modeling communities), for it allows to shift from static, periodic releases (FLUXNET2015) to a quasi-real-time approach, in which datasets become findable as soon as they are processed and quality-controlled. The FLUXNET Data System Initiative is built upon three pillars: uniform (meta)data formatting; a unique processing software (ONEFlux) used by the three Regional Hubs (ICOS, AmeriFlux and OzFlux/TERN); a data access tool based on APIs: the FLUXNET Shuttle, developed in the context of the OEMC project. Written in Python and available on GitHub, the Shuttle is a one-step access system that enables users to find and download open-licensed eddy covariance datasets worldwide with simple queries executed via command line or graphical interfaces. Different search criteria are available to discover the datasets, no matters where they have been collected and by which of the three Regional Hubs they have been processed. The Shuttle enables the definition of new standards for flux data interoperability.
Participants to this workshop will be able to search and download eddy covariance datasets from different sites. A quick overview of the datasets characteristics (data format, metadata available, variables included) will be provided at the beginning, and then attendees will install the Shuttle on their own devices and explore its functionalities. By the completion of two exercises, participants will become acquainted with potential use cases of global flux tower datasets, like comparison of ecosystem responses to stressors across different climate conditions.