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 Euri-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), where he is involved in the activities of the Ecosystem Thematic Center (ETC), a facility of the Integrated Carbon Observatory System Research Infrastructure (ICOS-RI). At the ETC he deals with giving support to the ICOS stations concerning eddy covariance (EC), air meteorological measurements, and file submission. He's also caring the in-situ Work Package of OEMC project (WP4), led by CMCC. Additional activities include support to PhD students, and involvements in ICOS-related projects (NUBICOS, NextGenCarbon)
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With this contribution we present a unified system for accessing and downloading the datasets of the FLUXNET network independently on their station of origin, named the FLUXNET Shuttle. FLUXNET is a global consortium of regional networks monitoring greenhouse gas exchanges at the ecosystem level, coordinated by three regional hubs – ICOS, AmeriFlux, OzFlux. With the participation of several hundreds of stations, it represents the most widespread effort of GHG flux monitoring at the global scale. Output files are harmonised across all the stations contributing to FLUXNET with the definition of a common set of variables – made possible by the use of the same processing software (ONEFlux). Despite that, some differences among the networks exist, especially in terms of data repositories accessibility, while the FLUXNET portal provides access to the latest complete data release (FLUXNET2015). The FLUXNET Shuttle is an API-based Python tool for querying FLUXNET datasets from any participating station in the world, thus overcoming these differences. To be used both by command line and via graphical interface, its technical implementation is a cornerstone of the FLUXNET Data System Initiative, which aims at extending the spatial coverage of FLUXNET stations and at surmounting the current system of fixed releases, in favour of a more dynamic one based on continuous updates. We expect this initiative to improve usability and discoverability of FLUXNET datasets, facilitating the users and increasing the FAIRness of the data, also in the context of the OEMC project. With the definitive version expected for December 2025, here we demonstrate the main features of the FLUXNET Shuttle in its current development, including accessing data of the three regional hubs, implemented search criteria (e.g. geographical areas, time periods, station names), and example of applications.