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| Titel |
Spatial structures of CO2, H2O, temperature and vertical wind velocity observed by aircraft |
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Christoph Selbach, Jan Schween, Susanne Crewell, Heiner Geiss, Bruno Neininger |
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EGU General Assembly 2010
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 12 (2010) |
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250032232
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| Zusammenfassung |
| During the FLUXPAT campaigns in 2008 and 2009 the MetAir Dimona research aricraft performed several fligths above a patchy, agricultural dominated landscape near Juelich/Germany. The measurements are aimed to capture the variability of water vapor and CO2 and derive turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer close to the ground. Flights took place at two main levels around 150 m and 250 m above ground. Agriculture in this region is dominated by two different crops: sugar beet and wheat. Flights were scheduled in April and August as at these times of the year strong contrasts can be found between different fields. In April sugar beet is usually just seeded whereas wheat already forms a closed canopy. In August wheat unlike sugar beat is already harvested.
We analyse the correlation lengths (L*) of CO2, H2O, temperature and vertical wind velocity on flight legs. L* is the median of the power spectrum i.e. 50 percent of the variance is in structures larger than L*. For the different quantities L* shows different behaviours during the day and between different flight levels. The structure lengthscales of CO2 have a large dependency on daytime and strongly decrease during noon and afternoon. We will present some approaches to explain this behaviour. |
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