CongoFlux – The First Eddy Covariance Flux Tower in the Congo Basin

The Congo basin is home to the second-largest tropical forest in world. Therefore, it plays a crucial role regional water cycle, global carbon cycle and continental greenhouse gas balance. Yet very few field-based data on related processes exist. In wake of change, there need for better understanding current future response biome this region. A new long-term effort has been set up measure exchange gasses between humid lowland atmosphere via an eddy-covariance (EC) tower. Eddy-covariance research stations have used decades already natural man-made ecosystems around globe, but Central Africa remained blind spot. so-called “CongoFlux” site installed right heart Basin, at Yangambi center DR Congo. This introductory paper presents elaborated description infrastructure; first its kind Earth.