A Perspective on Thirty Years of the Webb, Pearman and Leuning Density Corrections

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-59

  Lee, Xuhui ^a   Massman, William J ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Density corrections; Eddy covariance; Mass conservation

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGETS; DENSITY CORRECTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY FLUXES; ERROR PROPAGATION; EXPANSION VELOCITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUXNET; LONG LASTING; MASS CONSERVATION; MEAN VERTICAL VELOCITY; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PRESSURE CORRECTION; STEADY STATE; SURFACE FLUX; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TIME CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON BUDGET; EDDY COVARIANCE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; SURFACE FLUX; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 79952572583     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9575-z     Document Type: Article

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