The BADM file provides a description, general background, geo-location, relevant publications and references for the site. The BADM files also list what is measured at the site (this list may include chamber, gradient or other eddy covariance measurements that are a super-set of the data available in AmeriFlux). Also see AmeriFlux web page https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/data/aboutdata/badm-data-product/ for details.
amf_bifA data frame with 443 rows and 5 variables
SITE_ID - 6 digit AmeriFlux site ID (CC-Sss)
GROUP_ID - A unique identifier for data entries belonging to the same instance of a reported variable group
VARIABLE_GROUP - Define a set of variables that are reported together
VARIABLE - Variable names
DATAVALUE - Data value