Watts per meter squared not allowed for some ameriflux-type variable names

[bblakely]

I just updated PFP and its environment. When I try to run L1 with Ameriflux-type variable names, "W/m^2" is not accepted as units for LE, LW_IN, LW_OUT, or SH (sensible heat storage). It is accepted for SW_IN and SW_OUT. Is there a list of acceptable units somewhere?

[pisaac-ozflux]

Hi Bethany,

Feel free to contact me on pisaac.ozflux@gmail.com, you'll be more likely to get a quick reply.

It looks like you are trying to use the Ameriflux convention for variable names in PyFluxPro. Sadly, this isn't implemented yet and you can only use the OzFlux convention variable names. For example, latent heat flux is LE in the Ameriflux convention but is Fe in the OzFlux convention. L1 is used to map the the variable names of the input data to the variable names used by PyFluxPro. We hope to allow Ameriflux/FluxNet variable names in the future but for now, you have to rename these variables at L1 to the OzFlux/PyFluxPro convention.

The PyFluxPro wiki has a section on the OzFlux/PyFluxPro naming convention and units at https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro/wiki/Variable-names-units-and-other-attributes.

Feel free to get back in touch with me if this is not clear.

Cheers,
Peter