Articles | Volume 12, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2311-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2311-2015
Research article
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17 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 17 Apr 2015

On the use of the post-closure methods uncertainty band to evaluate the performance of land surface models against eddy covariance flux data

J. Ingwersen, K. Imukova, P. Högy, and T. Streck

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The energy balance of eddy covariance (EC) flux data is normally not closed. Therefore, EC flux data are usually post-closed, i.e. the measured turbulent fluxes are adjusted so as to close the energy balance. We propose to use in model evaluation the post-closure method uncertainty band (PUB) to account for the uncertainty in EC data originating from lacking energy balance closure. Working with only a single post-closing method might result in severe misinterpretations in model-data comparison.
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