Spatial averaging effect on local flux measurement using a displaced-beam small aperture scintillometer above the forest canopy

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 97-109

  Nakaya, Ko ^a   Suzuki, Chieko ^b   Kobayashi, Takuya ^a   Ikeda, Hideshi ^a   Yasuike, Shinji ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b Chiba Prefectural Nagareyama Kita Senior High School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissipation rates; Energy imbalance; Forest canopy; Scintillometer; Source area

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISSIPATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 34249995999     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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