Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1341-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1341-2016
Research article
 | 
31 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 31 Mar 2016

Optimization of an enclosed gas analyzer sampling system for measuring eddy covariance fluxes of H2O and CO2

Stefan Metzger, George Burba, Sean P. Burns, Peter D. Blanken, Jiahong Li, Hongyan Luo, and Rommel C. Zulueta

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