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Use of remotely sensed land use classification for a better evaluation of micrometeorological flux measurement sites

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Reithmaier, Lucia M. ; Göckede, Mathias ; Markkanen, Tiina ; Knohl, Alexander ; Churkina, A. ; Rebmann, Corinna ; Buchmann, Nina ; Foken, Thomas:
Use of remotely sensed land use classification for a better evaluation of micrometeorological flux measurement sites.
In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Vol. 84 (2006) Issue 4 . - pp. 219-233.
ISSN 1434-4483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-005-0168-6

Abstract in another language

Long-term flux measurement sites are often characterized by a heterogeneous terrain, which disagrees with the fundamental theoretical assumptions for eddy-covariance measurements. An evaluation procedure to assess the influence of terrain heterogeneity on the data quality has been developed by Göckede et al. (2004), which combines existing quality assessment tools for flux measurements with analytic footprint modeling. In addition to micrometeorological input data, this approach requires information defining the land use structure and the roughness of the surrounding terrain. The aim of this study was to improve the footprint based site evaluation approach by using high-resolution land use maps derived by Landsat ETMT+ and ASTER satellite data. The influence of the grid resolution of the maps on the results was examined, and four different roughness length classification schemes were tested. Due to numerical instabilities of the analytic footprint routine, as an additional footprint model a Lagrangian stochastic footprint routine (Rannik et al., 2003) was employed. Application of the approach on two German FLUXNET sites revealed only weak influence of the characteristics of the land use data when the land use structure was homogeneous. For a more heterogeneous site, use of the more detailed land use maps derived by remote sensing methods resulted in distinct differences indicating the potential of remote sensing for improving the flux measurement site evaluation.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Additional notes: BAYCEER30045
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Former Professors > Professor Micrometeorology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken
Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research- BayCEER
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Former Professors
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Central research institutes
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 500 Science
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2015 06:33
Last Modified: 10 Jul 2023 09:27
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/19155