A statistical method for estimating wood thermal diffusivity and probe geometry using in situ heat response curves from sap flow measurements

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1458-1470

  Chen, Xingyuan ^a,c   Miller, Gretchen R ^a,d   Rubin, Yoram ^a   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^b  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inversion; heat pulse; parameter estimation; sap velocity; thermal diffusivity

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMETRY; HEATING; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBE; SAP FLOW; TRANSPIRATION; WATER FLOW;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREE; UNITED STATES; WOOD; XYLEM;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CALIFORNIA; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TREES; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84871328161     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps100     Document Type: Article

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