In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'coordination of information on the environment' and it was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA. One of these is an inventory of land cover in 44 classes, and presented as a cartographic product, at a scale of 1:100 000. This database is operationally available for most areas of Europe (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover).

In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'coordination of information on the environment' and it was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA. One of these is an inventory of land cover in 44 classes, and presented as a cartographic product, at a scale of 1:100 000. This database is operationally available for most areas of Europe (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover).

Discharge at the main measuring weir (Station 551) at LTER Zöbelboden as calculated based on the gauging station’s rating curve and 15 min water level sensor data. When using the data, please take into account, that this is a karst area with uncertain catchment boundaries. The runoff at the main measuring weir does therefore not represent the true total runoff of the catchment. The best estimate of the catchment area representing the main measuring weir is 576000 m². For more details see Hartmann, A.; Kralik, M.; Humer, F.; Lange, J.; Weiler, M. Identification of a karst system’s intrinsic hydrodynamic parameters: upscaling from single springs to the whole aquifer. Environmental Earth Sciences 2011, 1–13, doi:10.1007/s12665-011-1033-9.

Precipitation chemistry of a karst watershed (Zöbelboden) from the year 2022

The LTER site Zöbelboden was equipped with highly modern infrastructure to assess the effects of extreme climate events on the forest ecosystem. The instruments include eddy covariance measurements for CO2 and water vapor fluxes at a tower (900 m a.s.l), and soil respiration auto-chambers, as well as combined sap flow sensors with automated dendrometers in the main footprint area of the eddy tower. This is the so called intensive plot 2 (IP2), which is equipped by a number of different field measurement devices for long-term monitoring (lysimeters water sampling, soil moisture and temperature sensors, manual dendrometers, deposition, litter fall) and supplemented by other monitoring activities (tree inventory, needle and leaf chemistry, soil chemistry). An optical multi-parameter probe for dissolved nitrogen and carbon was installed in the measuring weir of the catchment runoff at 577 m a.s.l. There, weekly water quality, runoff, and meteorology is monitored since many years. The related metadata refer to eddy covariance measurements. The data can be viewed and downloaded via the link provided using the station name “ZOE_0917F00”.

Runoff water chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2018

Runoff water chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2019

Litterfall chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2016

Litterfall chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2015

Runoff water chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2021