Air turbulence characteristics at multiple sites in and above the Amazon rainforest canopy

Santana, Raoni A.; Dias-Júnior, Cléo Q.; da Silva, Júlio Tóta; Fuentes, Jose D.; do Vale, Roseilson Souza; Alves, Eliane Gomes; dos Santos, Rosa Maria N.; Manzi, Antônio O.

doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.05.027

Title: Air turbulence characteristics at multiple sites in and above the Amazon rainforest canopy

Journal Article · Thu Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.05.027· OSTI ID:1611560

Santana, Raoni A. ^[1]; Dias-Júnior, Cléo Q. ^[2]; da Silva, Júlio Tóta ^[1]; Fuentes, Jose D. ^[3]; do Vale, Roseilson Souza ^[1]; Alves, Eliane Gomes ^[4]; dos Santos, Rosa Maria N. ^[5]; Manzi, Antônio O. ^[6]

Federal Univ. of West Para (UFOPA), Santarém (Brazil)
Federal Inst. of Education Science and Technology (IFPA), Belém (Brazil)
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
National Inst. for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus (Brazil)
Amazonas State Univ. (UEA), Manaus (Brazil)
National Inst. for Spatial Research (INPE), Cachoeira Paulista (Brazil)

Atmospheric turbulence characteristics within and above rain forest canopies are investigated at several sites located in the Amazon region of Brazil. Turbulence data provided by bi- and three-dimensional sonic anemometers, which were deployed at heights ranging from near the forest floor to about 80 m, are analyzed to describe the principal features of atmospheric turbulence, sensible heat flux (H), and components of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget equation. The analyses focused on weak (WW) and strong (SW) wind conditions to achieve the research objectives of evaluating the turbulence structure above and below the rain forest canopy and estimating the degree of coupling between air layers above the forest and deep in the canopy. Turbulence statistical moments show that atmospheric eddies, generated above the canopy, hardly penetrate the region below 0.5h (h is the canopy height). Forest-atmosphere exchanges of heat differ depending on the observed wind regimes. Sensible heat fluxes decrease with canopy depth for SW conditions and are approximately constant with the height for WW above the canopy. Sensible heat flux profiles reveal a transition layer (around 0.6h) which sometimes exchanges heat with the upper and sometimes with the lower forest canopy, depending on time of day and weather conditions. TKE balance results show that during the daytime period in SW conditions the shear production is at least an order of magnitude greater than the buoyancy above the forest canopy. This turbulence, however, is practically all dissipated in the region above 0.5h. Thus, the air layer from the soil surface to 0.5h is largely decoupled from the upper part of the forest canopy. This feature of having the bottom of the canopy mostly decoupled from the air aloft in the dense and tall rain forest can exert control on the residence times and turbulent transport of plant-emitted gases out of the forest canopy.

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Research Organization:: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

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OSTI ID:: 1611560

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1523670

Journal Information:: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 260-261; ISSN 0168-1923

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