NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Regional pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Regional

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In spite of setbacks due to forest fires, eviction after a change of landowners and unanticipated need to upgrade and replace much of the instrumentation, substantial progress has been made during the past three years, resulting in major new findings. Although most of the results are in manuscript form, three papers have been published and a fourth was recently submitted. The data has been subjected to extensive quality control. Extra attention has been devoted to the influence of tilt rotation and flux-calculation method, particularly with respect to nocturnal fluxes. Previous/standard methods for calculating nocturnal fluxes with moderate and strong stability are inadequate and lead to large random fluxes errors for individual records, due partly to inadvertent inclusion of mesoscale motions that strongly contaminant the estimation of fluxes by weak turbulence. Such large errors are serious for process studies requiring carbon dioxide fluxes for individual records, but are substantially reduced when averaging fluxes over longer periods as in calculation of annual NEE budgets.

We have employed a superior method for estimating fluxes in stable conditions with a variable averaging width . Mesoscale fluxes are generally unimportant except for events and are generally not systematic or predictable. Mesoscale or regional models of our region are not able to reproduce important aspects of the diurnally varying wind field

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 9/21/2005
• Year: 2005
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CARBON DIOXIDE, NOCTURNAL VARIATIONS, WATER VAPOR, HETEROGENEITY, ATMOSPHERIC MODELS, CONTAMINANTS, MESOSCALE PHENOMENA, QUALITY CONTROL, TURBULENCE, VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION, TERRAIN, Mahrt, Larry J

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