Oensingen (SO)

Site description

Oensingen (CH-Oe2) is the only arable site within the Swiss FluxNet. Eddy covariance flux measurements started in December 2003, making this site the second longest running cropland site globally. The site is located at 452 m als and is managed as a typical intensive crop rotation under the Swiss Integrated Management framework (IP Suisse) of the Proof of Ecological Performance. The tower coordinates are: 47°17'11.1" N and 7°44'01.5" E; WGS84 47.286417, 7.73375.  

Crop rotation

Find the sequence of crops here.

Research and infrastructure

Soil:

Half-hourly: temperature, moisture, heat flux

Atmosphere:

Half-hourly: eddy flux (CO2, H2O), wind vectors, radiation components, PAR (diffuse and total), temperature, humidity, precipitation

Vegetation:

Half-hourly: Vegetation reflectance. Linked to harvests: above-ground biomass production, crop residues

Enlarged view: Oensingen – Eddy station
Eddy flux station over rapeseed
Enlarged view: Oensingen – Eddy station
Eddy flux station over grain cereal

2017

Annina Winkler (MSc Umweltnaturwissenschaften), ETH Zurich. How does the use of organic fertilizer influence the carbon content and the CO2 budget of an arable soil with a four-year crop rotation?

2015/2016

Lina Künzler (BSc Agrarwissenschaften), ETH Zurich. Variabilität der Transpiration von Getreidepflanzen in der Klimakammer und im Getreidefeld

2007

Dominique Dietiker (MSc Agroecosystem Sciences), ETH Zurich. Biomass increment and water use efficiency of winter wheat: field measurements and computer simulation at the Oensingen site

2004

Franziska Böckli (Agrar. Ing.), ETH Zurich. Productivity and water use efficiency of winter wheat at the CarboEurope site Oensingen (in German)

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