Flux-variance method for latent heat and carbon dioxide fluxes in unstable conditions

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-384

  Guo, Xiaofeng ^a   Zhang, Hongsheng ^a   Cai, Xuhui ^a   Kang, Ling ^a   Zhu, Tong ^a   Leclerc, Monique Y ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric surface layer; CO2 flux; Density effect correction; Eddy covariance method; Flux variance method; Monin Obukhov similarity theory

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYER; CO2 FLUX; DENSITY EFFECT CORRECTION; EDDY-COVARIANCE METHOD; FLUX-VARIANCE METHOD; MONIN-OBUKHOV SIMILARITY THEORY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; IMAGE CODING; LATENT HEAT; WATER VAPOR;

SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CORRELATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ERROR CORRECTION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GAS EXCHANGE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 67349268781     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9377-3     Document Type: Article

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