Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an “ideal” eucalypt woodland site

McHugh, Ian D.; Beringer, Jason; Cunningham, Shaun C.; Baker, Patrick J.; Cavagnaro, Timothy R.; Mac Nally, Ralph; Thompson, Ross M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3027-2017

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22 Jun 2017

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| 22 Jun 2017

Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an “ideal” eucalypt woodland site

Ian D. McHugh, Jason Beringer, Shaun C. Cunningham, Patrick J. Baker, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Ralph Mac Nally, and Ross M. Thompson

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RC1: 'Comments on: Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an ‘ideal’ eucalypt woodland site', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Response to anonymous reviewer 1', I. McHugh, 10 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Evaluation of the paper titled ‘Interactions between nocturnal turbulent flux, storage and advection at an ‘ideal’ eucalypt woodland site’, by I. McHughes et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Response to anonymous reviewer 2', I. McHugh, 10 Sep 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Sep 2016) by Georg Wohlfahrt

AR by Ian McHugh on behalf of the Authors (19 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (23 Dec 2016) by Georg Wohlfahrt

AR by Ian McHugh on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

We analysed a 3-year record of CO₂ exchange at a eucalypt woodland and found that substantial nocturnal advective CO₂ losses occurred, thus requiring correction. We demonstrated that the most common of these correction methods incurred substantial bias in long-term estimates of carbon balance if storage of CO₂ below the measurement height was excluded. This is important because the majority of sites both in Australia and internationally lack such measurements.