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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3229-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3229-2015
Research article
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13 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 13 Aug 2015

A study of turbulent fluxes and their measurement errors for different wind regimes over the tropical Zongo Glacier (16° S) during the dry season

M. Litt, J.-E. Sicart, and W. Helgason

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We deal with surface turbulent flux calculations on a tropical glacier and analyse the related errors. We use data from two eddy-covariance systems and wind speed and temperature profiles collected during a 2-month measurement campaign undertaken within the atmospheric surface layer of the glacier. We show the largest error sources are related to roughness length uncertainties and to nonstationarity of the flow induced by the interaction of outer-layer eddies with the surface-layer flow.