Experimental design for flux measurements: Matching scales of observations and fluxes

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 179-200

  Schmid, H P ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Flux measurements; Micrometeorologists; Regional fluxes; Vertical flux

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031573178     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00011-7     Document Type: Article

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