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EBBR
Energy Balance Bowen Ratio Station
Baseline Instrument
The energy balance Bowen ratio (EBBR) system produces 30-minute estimates of the vertical fluxes of sensible and latent heat at the surface. The EBBR calculates flux estimates from observations of net radiation, soil surface heat flux, and the vertical gradients of temperature and relative humidity. Meteorological data collected by the EBBR are used to calculate bulk aerodynamic fluxes, which are used in the Bulk Aerodynamic Technique (BA) EBBR value-added product (VAP) to replace sunrise and sunset spikes in the flux data. A unique aspect of the system is the automatic exchange mechanism (AEM), which helps reduce errors from instrument offset drift.
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Ryan SullivanLead Mentor Argonne National Laboratory
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References
View all references- Cook et al. Energy Balance Bowen Ratio (EBBR) Instrument Handbook. 2025. 10.2172/1020562.
- Sullivan et al. "Improved Spatiotemporal Representativeness and Bias Reduction of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Retrievals via Use of In Situ Meteorology and Constrained Canopy Surface Resistance". 2019. 10.1029/2018JG004744.
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