1. The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study
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Patton, Edward G, Horst, Thomas W, Sullivan, Peter P, Lenschow, Donald H, Oncley, Steven P, Brown, William OJ, Burns, Sean P, Guenther, Alex B, Held, Andreas, Karl, Thomas, Mayor, Shane D, Rizzo, Luciana V, Spuler, Scott M, Sun, Jielun, Turnipseed, Andrew A, Allwine, Eugene J, Edburg, Steven L, Lamb, Brian K, Avissar, Roni, Calhoun, Ronald J, Kleissl, Jan, Massman, William J, Paw U, Kyaw Tha, and Weil, Jeffrey C
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Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Atmospheric Sciences ,Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience ,Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences - Abstract
The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS) experimental study was conducted at a Cilker Orchards's walnut blocks in Dixon, California, before and after leaves emerged, to help improve understanding, simulation capabilities, and modeling of coupled vegetation-atmosphere-land surface interactions. The campaign took place over 12 weeks in the spring of 2007 and was broken into three 4-week phases. Canopy-induced mechanical and thermodynamical vertical variation of turbulence transport characteristics and the linkages between canopy-scale motions and the larger scale planetary boundary layer (PBL) turbulence were measured. The observations focused on measurements characterizing stratification influences on the spatial structure of canopy-induced turbulence, the trace gas source/sink distribution associated with vegetation, and the overall impact of canopy-induced processes on trace gas transport.
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- 2011