Attenuation Correction Procedures for Water Vapour Fluxes from Closed-Path Eddy-Covariance Systems

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-423

  Runkle, Benjamin R K ^a   Wille, Christian ^a   Gažovič, Michal ^b   Kutzbach, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Closed path sensors; Eddy covariance; Flux uncertainties; High frequency correction; Water vapour fluxes

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION METHOD; CLOSED-PATH SYSTEM; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EDDY COVARIANCE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LAG-TIME; OPEN-PATH; PHYSICALLY BASED; SIGNAL LOSS; TUBE WALLS; VERTICAL WIND; WATER VAPOUR;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SENSORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WATER SUPPLY;

HEAT FLUX;

ADSORPTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; DESORPTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ERROR CORRECTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE FLUX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WATER VAPOR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84856385717     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-011-9689-y     Document Type: Article

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