Wüstebach forest station

The Wüstebach forest station (50.504°N, 6.331°E, 610 m a.s.l.) is located in the small catchment of the Wüstebach (38.5 ha), which is part German low mountain range within the borders of the Eifel National Park near the German-Belgian border. The site represents the typical, but not natural, spruce forest vegetation type of the region. During late summer/early autumn of 2013, trees were almost completely removed in an area of 9 ha by the national park forest management in order to promote the natural regeneration of near-natural deciduous forest from spruce monoculture forest.
In 2009 a 38 m high eddy covariance tower that was set up in a still forested eastern part of the study site. Currently the tower is equipped with a CSAT3 anemometer and a LI7500 gas analyser, a CO2 profile with a closed path gas analyser is in the planning stage. In order to monitor the matter and energy balance changes associated with the partial clear-felling, various continuously logging instruments were installed in the catchment, e.g. several weather stations, 3 runoff gauging stations, 6 weighable lysimeters, 2 cosmic-ray soil moisture sensors, several sap flow sensors and a wireless soil sensor network (see Bogena et al. (2015) for detailed information). Immediately after clear-felling a second small eddy covariance tower (50.503°N, 6.335°E, 667 m a.s.l.) was installed at the newly created forest clearing to observe its exchange processes especially in comparison with the tower measurements.

For more information see also:

Wüstebach research station

Interpolated soil moisture data from the SoilNet sensor network in the Wüstebach

Regularly updated data of the site can be achieved through this Link.

Wüstebach forest station
The 38 m high main eddy covariance tower
Wüstebach forest station
The second small eddy covariance tower installed at the newly created forest clearing

Letzte Änderung: 12.12.2024