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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6047-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6047-2024
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17 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 17 Oct 2024

Lower-cost eddy covariance for CO2 and H2O fluxes over grassland and agroforestry

Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Alexander Knohl, José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Robert Clement, Timothy C. Hill, Lukas Siebicke, and Christian Markwitz

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In this work we present experimental field results of a lower-cost eddy covariance (LC-EC) system, which can measure the ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and water vapour with the atmosphere. During three field campaigns on a grassland and agroforestry grassland, we compared the LC-EC with a conventional eddy covariance (CON-EC) system. Our results show that LC-EC has the potential to measure EC fluxes at only approximately 25 % of the cost of a CON-EC system.
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