Surface flux measurements in FIFE: An overview

Journal Article · Mon Nov 30 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/92JD00254· OSTI ID:6286436

Kanemasu, E T ^[1]; Verma, S B ^[2]; Smith, E A ^[3]; Fritschen, L J ^[4]; Wesely, M ^[5]; Field, R T ^[6]; Kustas, W P ^[7]; Weaver, H ^[8]; Stewart, J B ^[9]; Gurney, R ^[10]; Panin, G ^[11]; Moncrieff, J B ^[12]

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1. Univ. of Georgia, Griffin (United States)
2. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln (United States)
3. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee (United States)
4. Univ. of Washington, Seattle (United States)
5. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
6. Univ. of Delaware, Newark (United States)
7. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD (United States)
8. Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
9. U.K. Inst. of Hydrology, Wallingford (United Kingdom)
10. Univ. of Reading (United Kingdom)
11. Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
12. Univ. of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

This work is part of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Field Experiment (FIFE), an international land-surface-atmosphere experiment aimed at improving the way climate models represent energy, water, heat, and carbon exchanges, and improving the utilization of satellite based remote sensing to monitor such parameters. This paper provides an overview of the following papers which are part of the surface flux measurements group effort during the l987 and 1989 campaigns. A variety of sensors were used to monitor fluxes of heat, moisture, radiation, momentum, and several radiatively active trace gases. In l987 there were 22 stations at 20 sites, and in 1989 there were 13 instrumented sites. There were two main goals for the surface flux group. First was to obtain a detailed record of all relevant fluxes, collected at half hour intervals over the FIFE site, and second was to interpret the time and space variability of these fluxes, and relate this to the problem of modeling such fluxes on an area-averaged basis.

• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6286436
• Journal Information: Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research; (United States) Vol. 97:D17; ISSN JGREA2; ISSN 0148-0227
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540110
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR-BIOSPHERE INTERACTIONS
DISTRIBUTION
EARTH PLANET
HEAT FLUX
MOISTURE
PLANETS
RADIATIONS
SOLAR RADIATION
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
STELLAR RADIATION
SURFACE PROPERTIES
TIME DEPENDENCE