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Research article
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05 Jun 2020
Research article |
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Correcting high-frequency losses of reactive nitrogen flux measurements
Pascal Wintjen
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 65, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Christof Ammann
Climate and Agriculture Group, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046, Zürich, Switzerland
Frederik Schrader
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 65, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Christian Brümmer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 65, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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Short summary
With recent technological advances it is now possible to measure the exchange of trace gases between the land surface and the atmosphere. When using the so-called eddy-covariance method, certain corrections need to be applied to account for attenuation in the flux signal. These losses were found to be setup- and site-specific and can be up to 38 % for reactive nitrogen fluxes. We evaluated five different methods and recommend using an empirical version with locally measured cospectra.
With recent technological advances it is now possible to measure the exchange of trace gases...
