Evaluation of footprint models for fluxes analysis using the Eddy-Covariance technique over small areas
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X30701Keywords:
Footprint, Eddy-covariance, Flux measurementsAbstract
Two models for footprint calculations are compared employing flux measurements in the planetary boundary layer. The calculationsare based on the analytical models by Kormann e Meixner (2001) [An analytical footprint model for non-neutral stratification.
Boundary-Layer Meteorology 99, 207–224] and by Schuepp et al. (1990) [Footprint prediction of scalar fluxes from analytical solutions of the difussion equation. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 50, 355-373]. The footprint density functions of a flux sensor are determined using eddy-covariance data. Those functions are integrated over surfaces given by quadrangular rectangles, in this case an agricultural field. This work ilustrates the features of each footprint model employing flux measurements with an eddy-covariance system of the SULFLUX network, installed on a agricultural field. Finally, it is presented the model that describes in a better way the flux measurements in small fields.
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