Air temperature equation derived from sonic temperature and water vapor mixing ratio for turbulent airflow sampled  through closed-path eddy-covariance flux systems

Zhou, Xinhua; Gao, Tian; Takle, Eugene S.; Zhen, Xiaojie; Suyker, Andrew E.; Awada, Tala; Okalebo, Jane; Zhu, Jiaojun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-95-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-95-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-95-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

Research article

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05 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 05 Jan 2022

Air temperature equation derived from sonic temperature and water vapor mixing ratio for turbulent airflow sampled through closed-path eddy-covariance flux systems

Xinhua Zhou, Tian Gao, Eugene S. Takle, Xiaojie Zhen, Andrew E. Suyker, Tala Awada, Jane Okalebo, and Jiaojun Zhu

Data sets

Dataset for “Air temperature equation derived from sonic temperature and water vapor mixing ratio for turbulent air flow sampled through closed-path eddy-covariance flux systems” Xinhua Zhou, Tian Gao https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d2547d83x

Short summary

Air temperature from sonic temperature and air moisture has been used without an exact equation. We present an exact equation of such air temperature for closed-path eddy-covariance flux measurements. Air temperature from this equation is equivalent to sonic temperature in its accuracy and frequency response. It is a choice for advanced flux topics because, with it, thermodynamic variables in the flux measurements can be temporally synchronized and spatially matched at measurement scales.