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The air density correction to eddy flux measurements

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Under the usual assumptions for the atmospheric surface layer, we show that air density fluctuations, particularly those due to temperature fluctuations associated with a heat flux, result in a small mean vertical wind velocity. Because of this, there can be a significant correction to eddy flux measurements of passive scalars, for example CO2, whose average concentration is very large compared to concentration fluctuations associated with the eddy flux.

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  1. Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, B2Y 4A2, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

    E. P. Jones & S. D. Smith

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Jones, E.P., Smith, S.D. The air density correction to eddy flux measurements. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 15, 357–360 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02652607

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