Low-cost eddy covariance: a case study of evapotranspiration over agroforestry in Germany

Markwitz, Christian; Siebicke, Lukas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4677-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4677-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4677-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 9

Research article

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03 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2019

Low-cost eddy covariance: a case study of evapotranspiration over agroforestry in Germany

Christian Markwitz and Lukas Siebicke

Data sets

Data set supporting journal article: Markwitz, C. and Siebicke, L.: "Low-cost eddy covariance: a case study of evapotranspiration over agroforestry in Germany", Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2019 C. Markwitz and L. Siebicke https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3356837

Short summary

Turbulent fluxes are usually measured by the eddy covariance method using a combination of a costly gas analyser and a sonic anemometer. In this paper we present an eddy covariance set-up of low cost to measure evapotranspiration over agricultural fields. The method is shown to be comparable to a conventional eddy covariance set-up and is a viable alternative when spatial replicates are required.