Decoupling of air flow above and in plant canopies and gravity waves affect micrometeorological estimates of net scalar exchange

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 927-933

  Van Gorsel, Eva ^a   Harman, Ian N ^a   Finnigan, John J ^a   Leuning, Ray ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advection; Canopy exchange; Decoupling; Gravity waves; Linear instability; Micrometeorology; Storage

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AIRFLOW; CANOPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; LINEARITY; MASS BALANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROMETEOROLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79955601031     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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