[Taroko Earth Surface Observatory](https://www.gfz.de/en/scientific-infrastructure/research-infrastructures/regional-observatories/taroko-earth-surface-observatory-teso) The observatory is a long-term monitoring site of Earth surface processes, solid, solute and gaseous matter fluxes and biogeochemical cycles and their drivers, straddling an active mountain landscape from orogen ridgepole to coastline in Taiwan.