Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1253-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1253-2021
Research article
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18 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2021

Water vapor density and turbulent fluxes from three generations of infrared gas analyzers

Seth Kutikoff, Xiaomao Lin, Steven R. Evett, Prasanna Gowda, David Brauer, Jerry Moorhead, Gary Marek, Paul Colaizzi, Robert Aiken, Liukang Xu, and Clenton Owensby

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Fast-response infrared gas sensors have been used over 3 decades for long-term monitoring of water vapor fluxes. As optically improved infrared gas sensors are newly employed, we evaluated the performance of water vapor density and water vapor flux from three generations of infrared gas sensors in Bushland, Texas, USA. From our experiments, fluxes from the old sensors were best representative of evapotranspiration based on a world-class lysimeter reference measurement.
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