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Choosing an optimal β factor for relaxed eddy accumulation applications across vegetated and non-vegetated surfaces
Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Department of Micrometeorology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Amy Hrdina
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Christoph K. Thomas
Department of Micrometeorology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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The relaxed eddy accumulation technique is a method used for measuring fluxes of chemical species in the atmosphere. It relies on a proportionality factor, β, which can be determined using different methods. Also, different techniques for sampling can be used by only drawing air into the measurement system when vertical wind velocity exceeds a certain threshold. We compare different ways to obtain β and different threshold techniques to direct flux measurements for three different sites.
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