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At the Waldstein-Weidenbrunnen site, several techniques for data quality control were developed and tested and later on applied at European FLUXNET sites. The history of this development and the specific results for the site form the subject of this chapter. These data quality criteria include integral turbulence characteristics, which are dependent on heterogeneities in the footprint area and inside the canopy. Furthermore, footprint models were applied to determine the footprint climatology and to link these models with the data quality of eddy covariance data. This tool was also applied to find the optimal period for the application of the planar-fit rotation method. The energy balance closure was found to be about 80 % in all periods. These findings were summarized as a schema for data quality control and characterization of FLUXNET sites.
T. Foken, M. Göckede, J. Lüers, L. Siebicke, C. Rebmann, J. Ruppert, C.K. Thomas: Affiliation during the work at the Waldstein sites: Department of Micrometeorology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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This work was supported by the EU projects CARBOEUROFLUX (ENVK2-1999-00229), CARBOEUROPE-IP (GOCE-CT-2003-505572), and INTAS 1501, projects of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (VERTIKO project, afo-2000, 07 ATF37; fourth project of BITÖK, PT BEO 51-0339476 D), and the German Science Foundation, project FO 226/16-1. Furthermore, we thank Tobias Biermann, Martina Hunner, Alexander Mangold, Lucia Reithmaier (now Seebach), and Friederike Rütz for the calculation of selected results within their master theses and Matthias Mauder and Tiina Markkanen for supporting the CARBOEUROPE-IP data quality analysis.
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Foken, T. et al. (2017). Development of Flux Data Quality Tools. In: Foken, T. (eds) Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem. Ecological Studies, vol 229. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49389-3_12
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