Decoupling of a Douglas fir canopy: a look into the subcanopy with continuous vertical temperature profiles

Schilperoort, Bart; Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam; Jiménez Rodríguez, César; van der Tol, Christiaan; van de Wiel, Bas; Savenije, Hubert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6423-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6423-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6423-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 24

Research article

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21 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2020

Decoupling of a Douglas fir canopy: a look into the subcanopy with continuous vertical temperature profiles

Bart Schilperoort, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, César Jiménez Rodríguez, Christiaan van der Tol, Bas van de Wiel, and Hubert Savenije

Data sets

Speulderbos turbulence and temperature profile measurements Bart Schilperoort, César Jiménez Rodríguez, Christiaan van der Tol, Murat Ucer, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:e0a3d8c9-cb3c-4029-bbe8-2b775c0b88ef

Video supplement

Animated DTS temperature profiles Speulderbos forest Bart Schilperoort, César Jiménez Rodríguez, and Miriam Coenders-Gerrits https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3048116

Short summary

With distributed temperature sensing (DTS) we measured a vertical temperature profile in a forest, from the forest floor to above the treetops. Using this temperature profile we can see which parts of the forest canopy are colder (thus more dense) or warmer (and less dense) and study the effect this has on the suppression of turbulent mixing. This can be used to improve our knowledge of the interaction between the atmosphere and forests and improve carbon dioxide flux measurements over forests.