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  Scalar turbulent behavior in the roughness sublayer of an Amazonian forest

Zahn, E., Dias, N. L., Araujo, A., Sa, L., Sörgel, M., Trebs, I., et al. (2016). Scalar turbulent behavior in the roughness sublayer of an Amazonian forest. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(17), 11349-11366. doi:10.5194/acp-16-11349-2016.

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Zahn, Einara1, Author
Dias, Nelson L.1, Author
Araujo, Alessandro1, Author
Sa, Leonardo1, Author
Sörgel, M.2, Author           
Trebs, Ivonne1, Author
Wolff, S.2, Author           
Manzi, Antonio1, Author
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2Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society, ou_1826286              

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 Abstract: An important current problem in micrometeorology is the characterization of turbulence in the roughness sublayer (RSL), where most of the measurements above tall forests are made. There, scalar turbulent fluctuations display significant departures from the predictions of Monin-Obukhov similarity theory (MOST). In this work, we analyze turbulence data of virtual temperature, carbon dioxide, and water vapor in the RSL above an Amazonian forest (with a canopy height of 40 m), measured at 39.4 and 81.6m above the ground under unstable conditions. We found that dimensionless statistics related to the rate of dissipation of turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) and the scalar variance display significant departures from MOST as expected, whereas the vertical velocity variance follows MOST much more closely. Much better agreement between the dimensionless statistics with the Obukhov similarity variable, however, was found for the subset of measurements made at a low zenith angle Z, in the range 0 degrees < vertical bar Z vertical bar < 20 degrees. We conjecture that this improvement is due to the relationship between sunlight incidence and the "activation-deactivation" of scalar sinks and sources vertically distributed in the forest. Finally, we evaluated the relaxation coefficient of relaxed eddy accumulation: it is also affected by zenith angle, with considerable improvement in the range 0 degrees < vertical bar Z vertical bar < 20 degrees, and its values fall within the range reported in the literature for the unstable surface layer. In general, our results indicate the possibility of better stability-derived flux estimates for low zenith angle ranges.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2016
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Identifiers: ISI: 000384251200004
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-11349-2016
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Title: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Publ. Info: Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany : European Geosciences Union
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 16 (17) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 11349 - 11366 Identifier: ISSN: 1680-7316
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/111030403014016