Journal
BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY
Volume 146, Issue 1, Pages 1-15Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-012-9745-2
Keywords
Conditional sampling; Eddy covariance; Flux partitioning; Wavelet decomposition
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [PBEZP2-127819]
- Office of Science (BER) U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-06ER64318]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [AGS 0955444]
- Directorate For Geosciences [0955444] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigated an alternative means for quantifying daytime ecosystem respiration from eddy-covariance data in three forests with different canopy architecture. Our hypothesis was that the turbulent transport by coherent structures is the main pathway for carrying detectable sub-canopy respiration signals through the canopy. The study extends previously published work by incorporating state-of-the-art wavelet decomposition techniques for the detection of coherent structures. Further, we investigated spatial and temporal variability of the respiration signal and coherent exchange at multiple heights, for three mature forest sites with varying canopy and terrain properties for one summer month. A connection between the coherent structures and identified sub-canopy respiration signal was clearly determined. Although not always visible in signals collected above the canopy, certain cases showed a clear link between conditionally sampled respiration events and coherent structures. The dominant time scales of the coherent structure ejection phase (20-30 s), relative timing of maximum coincidence between respiration events and the coherent structure ejection phase (at approximately -10 s from detection) and vertical transport upward through the canopy were shown to be consistent in time, across measurement heights and across the different forest sites. Best results were observed for an open canopy pine site. We conclude that the presented method is likely to be applicable at more open rather than dense (closed) canopies. The results provided a confirmation of the connection between below- and above-canopy scalar time series, and may help the development or refinement of direct methods for the determination of component fluxes from observations above the canopy.
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