Quantifying the uncertainty of eddy covariance fluxes due to the use of
different software packages and combinations of processing steps in two
contrasting ecosystems

Mammarella, Ivan; Peltola, Olli; Nordbo, Annika; Järvi, Leena; Rannik, Üllar

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4915-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4915-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4915-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 10

Research article

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06 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 06 Oct 2016

Quantifying the uncertainty of eddy covariance fluxes due to the use of different software packages and combinations of processing steps in two contrasting ecosystems

Ivan Mammarella, Olli Peltola, Annika Nordbo, Leena Järvi, and Üllar Rannik

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Preprint (discussion started on 18 Jan 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of “EddyUH: an advanced software package for eddy covariance flux calculation for a wide range of instrumentation and ecosystems”, by I. Mammarella, O. Peltola, A. Nordbo, L. Järvi, Ü. Rannik', Marc Aubinet, 19 Jan 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer Aubinet', Ivan Mammarella, 13 May 2016
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript “Eddy UH: an advanced software package for eddy covariance calculation for a wide range of instrumentation and ecosystems” by Mammarella et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Ivan Mammarella, 13 May 2016
RC3: 'amt-2015-323', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Mar 2016
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Ivan Mammarella, 13 May 2016

Short summary

In this study we have performed an inter-comparison between EddyUH and EddyPro, two public and commonly used software packages for eddy covariance data processing and calculation. The aims are to estimate the flux uncertainty due to the use of different software packages, and to assess the most critical processing steps, determining the largest deviations in the calculated fluxes. We focus not only on water vapour and carbon dioxide fluxes, but also on the methane flux.