Research existing standards and practices

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The first of our ESS-DIVE goals:

Research existing standards and practices in use at relevant agencies both within the US and Internationally. Included in this research will be projects within the DOE ESS community

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Sources off the top of my head:

Soil chamber fluxes

• The SRDB
• Hibbard (if available?), and older compendia of annual fluxes
• Powell Center group - I think Danielle put this on our Google Sheet
• Avni's work

Gas fluxes more generally

• SIDb - https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/12/61/2020/
• Ameriflux and FLUXNET

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Link back to January progress doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NIkr2oBpze5YnNg6EG87CHbOisjMaHleXmMggOJtC_8/edit?ts=5e18fe4c

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Our standards are comprised of

• Structure
• How it's put together (traceability, reproducibility)
• Usability (for end users)

If we start with a survey, hopefully via google forms, we can ask them to assess (not important, ... very important) above categories, not individual fields.

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Structure

• How important is it to record specific variables (e.g. curve fit, R2)?
• Ancillary measurements: how important is it to record these?
• COSORE providing a "level 2" homogenized dataset with climate data, soils data, etc. already merged in?
• Current bare-minimum is (flux, Timestamp end, begin, port # , where, how, by whom)... (more requirements == fewer data) do you think these should change?

Traceability/reproducibility

• How important is it that a flux value in cosore is traceably back to the original raw file?

Useability

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See my edits in the survey; we can discuss.

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Reminder from call 2020-03-26: Deb suggests engaging with NGEE folks about COSORE. We should say we've done that by next month.

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...include them on survey expansion, for example.