Assessing tower flux footprint climatology and scaling between remotely sensed and eddy covariance measurements

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-167

  Chen, Baozhang ^a   Black, T Andrew ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^a   Trofymow, J A ^b   Morgenstern, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon balance; Eddy covariance measurements; Flux footprint; Footprint climatology; Gross primary productivity; Remote sensing; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; BUILDINGS; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FLUXES; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOWERS;

CARBON BALANCE; EDDY-COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; FLUX FOOTPRINT; FOOTPRINT CLIMATOLOGY; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; UPSCALING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 58549092954     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9339-1     Document Type: Article

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