d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:16:48 UK GEMINI 2.3 Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from a permanent wetland in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2018-2020 2021-05-11 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e 10.5285/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e doi: Helfter, C., Gondwe, M., Skiba, U. (2021). Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from a permanent wetland in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2018-2020. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e 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 Helfter, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5773-4652 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gondwe, M. University of Botswana mgondwe@ori.ub.bw https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2607-5399 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Skiba, U. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-6092 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Helfter, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5773-4652 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Cyperus papyrus Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation greenhouse gas methane wetland GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Botswana Okavango Deleta GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Climate and climate change Africa Papyrus sedge Permanent wetland otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Helfter, C., Gondwe, M., Skiba, U. (2021). Methane and carbon dioxide fluxes from a permanent wetland in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2018-2020. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e textTable English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2018-01-01 2018-01-31 21.451 23.593 -20.128 -18.48 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d366ed40-af8c-42be-86f2-bb90b11a659e.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.