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Anders Lindroth

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ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup : A review

Author

  • Corinna Rebmann
  • Marc Aubinet
  • Hape Schmid
  • Nicola Arriga
  • Mika Aurela
  • George Burba
  • Robert Clement
  • Anne De Ligne
  • Gerardo Fratini
  • Bert Gielen
  • John Grace
  • Alexander Graf
  • Patrick Gross
  • Sami Haapanala
  • Mathias Herbst
  • Lukas Hörtnagl
  • Andreas Ibrom
  • Lilian Joly
  • Natascha Kljun
  • Olaf Kolle
  • Andrew Kowalski
  • Anders Lindroth
  • Denis Loustau
  • Ivan Mammarella
  • Matthias Mauder
  • Lutz Merbold
  • Stefan Metzger
  • Meelis Mölder
  • Leonardo Montagnani
  • Dario Papale
  • Marian Pavelka
  • Matthias Peichl
  • Marilyn Roland
  • Penélope Serrano-Ortiz
  • Lukas Siebicke
  • Rainer Steinbrecher
  • Juha Pekka Tuovinen
  • Timo Vesala
  • Georg Wohlfahrt
  • Daniela Franz
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Summary, in English

The Integrated Carbon Observation System Research Infrastructure aims to provide long-Term, continuous observations of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapour. At ICOS ecosystem stations, the principal technique for measurements of ecosystem-Atmosphere exchange of GHGs is the eddy-covariance technique. The establishment and setup of an eddy-covariance tower have to be carefully reasoned to ensure high quality flux measurements being representative of the investigated ecosystem and comparable to measurements at other stations. To fulfill the requirements needed for flux determination with the eddy-covariance technique, variations in GHG concentrations have to be measured at high frequency, simultaneously with the wind velocity, in order to fully capture turbulent fluctuations. This requires the use of high-frequency gas analysers and ultrasonic anemometers. In addition, to analyse flux data with respect to environmental conditions but also to enable corrections in the post-processing procedures, it is necessary to measure additional abiotic variables in close vicinity to the flux measurements. Here we describe the standards the ICOS ecosystem station network has adopted for GHG flux measurements with respect to the setup of instrumentation on towers to maximize measurement precision and accuracy while allowing for flexibility in order to observe specific ecosystem features.

Department/s

  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • ICOS Sweden

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

471-494

Publication/Series

International Agrophysics

Volume

32

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

De Gruyter

Topic

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • eddy covariance technique
  • greenhouse gas
  • ICOS
  • protocol
  • tower set up

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0236-8722