Spatial representativeness of tall tower eddy covariance measurements using remote sensing and footprint analysis

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 795-807

  Barcza, Z ^a   Kern, A ^a,b   Haszpra, L ^c   Kljun, N ^d  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop phenology; Eddy covariance; Footprint climatology; Footprint parameterization; Heterogeneous terrain; MODIS; NDVI; Tall tower

Indexed keywords

EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOTPRINT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 59349087886     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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