EDDY COVARIANCE CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN NOCTURNAL CONDITIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM

M Aubinet - Ecological applications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed analysis of the various processes at work in stable boundary layers was made. It
pointed out that two main mechanisms may affect eddy covariance measurements in stable …

A review of turbulence in the very stable nocturnal boundary layer and its implications for air quality

JA Salmond, IG McKendry - Progress in Physical Geography, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Turbulence in the very stable nocturnal boundary layer is weak and typically characterized
by intermittent bursts of activity. It often exists in isolated layers or pockets generated …

A strategy for quality and uncertainty assessment of long-term eddy-covariance measurements

M Mauder, M Cuntz, C Drüe, A Graf, C Rebmann… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
Eddy-covariance measurements are performed at several hundred sites all over the world
on a long-term basis. The gathered data are used to characterise ecosystem exchanges of …

Atmospheric disturbances that generate intermittent turbulence in nocturnal boundary layers

J Sun, DH Lenschow, SP Burns, RM Banta… - Boundary-layer …, 2004 - Springer
Using the unprecedented observational facilities deployed duringthe 1999 Cooperative
Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study (CASES-99), we found three distinct turbulent events …

Vertical profiles of NO3, N2O5, O3, and NOx in the nocturnal boundary layer: 1. Observations during the Texas Air Quality Study 2000

J Stutz, B Alicke, R Ackermann, A Geyer… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Nocturnal chemistry in urban areas can considerably influence the composition of the
boundary layer by removing nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, as well as changing the size …

[HTML][HTML] Wind and temperature oscillations generated by wave–turbulence interactions in the stably stratified boundary layer

J Sun, L Mahrt, C Nappo… - Journal of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The authors investigate atmospheric internal gravity waves (IGWs): their generation and
induction of global intermittent turbulence in the nocturnal stable atmospheric boundary …

Extremely weak mixing in stable conditions

L Mahrt, D Vickers - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2006 - Springer
Transport by extremely weak turbulence occurring on nights with clear skies and weak
winds is examined from seven tower levels of eddy-correlation data taken from each of two …

Effects of turbulence structure and urbanization on the heavy haze pollution process

Y Ren, H Zhang, W Wei, B Wu, X Cai… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
In this paper, an automated algorithm is developed, which is used to identify the spectral gap
during the heavy haze pollution process, reconstruct acquired data, and obtain pure …

An evaluation of the flux–gradient relationship in the stable boundary layer

Z Sorbjan, AA Grachev - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2010 - Springer
Data collected during the SHEBA and CASES-99 field programs are employed to examine
the flux–gradient relationship for wind speed and temperature in the stably stratified …

Variability and maintenance of turbulence in the very stable boundary layer

L Mahrt - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2010 - Springer
The relationship of turbulence quantities to mean flow quantities, such as the Richardson
number, degenerates substantially for strong stability, at least in those studies that do not …