Failure of Taylor's hypothesis in the atmospheric surface layer and its correction for eddy-covariance measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 4287-4295

  Cheng, Yu ^a   Sayde, Chadi ^b,c   Li, Qi ^a   Basara, Jeffrey ^d   Selker, John ^b   Tanner, Evan ^e   Gentine, Pierre ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eddy covariance measurement; surface energy balance; Taylor's hypothesis; turbulent spectrum

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; FROZEN-TURBULENCE HYPOTHESIS; STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TAYLOR'S HYPOTHESIS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TURBULENT SPECTRUM;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CONVECTION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BUDGET; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRUM; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE LAYER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 85018437256     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073499     Document Type: Article

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