Energy balance closure on a winter wheat stand: comparing the eddy covariance technique with the soil water balance method

Energy-balance model validation on the top of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, using eddy covariance data

Eddy covariance data collected over a horizontal surface on the largest ice body on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, over 26–29 July 2005 were used to assess the uncertainty of calculating sublimation with a surface energy balance (SEB) model. Data required for input to the SEB model were obtained from an existing automatic weather station. Surface temperatures that were solved iteratively by the SEB mod...

Estimation of effective precipitation for winter wheat in different regions of Iran using an Extended Soil-Water Balance Model

Estimated Effective Precipitation (Pe) in dryland areas is an essential element of water resource management. Itrepresents the amount of precipitation available in the crop root zone to meet the needs of evapotranspiration. Thecurrent study compared different approaches for estimating Pe in different climatic zones of Iran. A two-layer soil–water balance (SWB) model was adopted based on the pro...

Assessing the Eddy Covariance Technique for Evaluating the Carbon Balance of Ecosystems

Assessing Ecosystem Carbon Balance: Problems and Prospects of the Eddy Covariance Technique

Net radiation with energy balance closure

Biogeosciences Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Biogeosciences (BG). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in BG if available. Abstract Low energy balance closure (EBC) at a particular eddy-covariance flux site increased the uncertainties of carbon, water and energy measurements and thus hampered the urgent research of scaling up and modeling an...