B51K:
Advances in Observing and Scaling Surface-Atmosphere Exchange for Enhancing Long-Term Flux Networks I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Bai Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Stefan Metzger, NEON, Fundamental Instrument Unit, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Dario Papale, Tuscia University, Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF), Viterbo, Italy and Bai Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Bai Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Transducer Shadowing Explains Observed Underestimates in Vertical Wind Velocity from Non-orthogonal Sonic Anemometers
John M Frank, U.S. Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, William J Massman, US Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Edward Swiatek, Campbell Scientific, Inc., Logan, UT, United States, Herb Zimmerman, Applied Technologies, Inc., Longmont, CO, United States and Brent E Ewers, University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY, United States
8:15 AM
 
Measurements of Flow Distortion within the CSAT3 Sonic Anemometer
Thomas W Horst1, Ebba Dellwik2, Jakob Mann2 and Nikolas Angelou2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark
8:30 AM
 
A Comparison of Infrared Gas Analyzers Above a Subalpine Forest
Sean P Burns1,2, Stefan Metzger3, Peter Blanken1, George G Burba4, Edward Swiatek5, Jiahong Li4 and Benjamin Conrad5, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NEON, Fundamental Instrument Unit, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (5)Campbell Scientific, Inc., Logan, UT, United States
8:45 AM
 
Data Processing for Making Eddy Covariance Methane Flux Measurement with Laser-Based CH4 Gas Analyzer
Liukang Xu, George G Burba and Dayle K McDermitt, LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE, United States
9:00 AM
 
A Long Term View of Forest Response to Environmental Change: 25 Years of Studying Harvard Forest
J William Munger1, Steven C Wofsy1, Jakob Lindaas1, Foster David2 and Orwig David2, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Investigating the biophysical controls on mass and energy cycling in Southwestern US ecosystems using the New Mexico Elevation Gradient of flux towers.
Daniel J Krofcheck, Laura Morillas and Marcy E Litvak, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
9:30 AM
 
Emergent Patterns of Forest Biomass Production from Across and within a Micro-Network
Neil Pederson1, Dario Martin Benito2, Daniel A Bishop1, Andria Dawson3, Michael Dietze4, Daniel Druckenbrod5, Alex Dye6, Ana Camila Gonzalez7, Amy E Hessl6, Javier Martin Fernandez1, Jason S McLachlan8, Christopher J Paciorek9, Benjamin Poulter10 and John W Williams11, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, United States, (6)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (9)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (11)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
9:45 AM
 
Assessing the Impacts of Land-Use Change and Ecological Restoration on CH4 and CO2 Fluxes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Findings from a Regional Network of Eddy Covariance Towers
Sara H Knox1, Cove S Sturtevant1, Patricia Y Oikawa1, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes2, Laura E Koteen3, Frank E Anderson4, Joseph G Verfaillie1 and Dennis D Baldocchi1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Dept. Geography and Grad Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
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