EBBR

ebbr > Energy Balance Bowen Ratio StationInstrument Type(s) > Baseline

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.

Primary Derived Measurements

Locations

Fixed
AMF1
AMF2
AMF3

Active Locations

Facility Name	Start Date
Maple City, KS (Extended)	2011-09-02
Pawnee, OK (Extended)	2015-10-15
Marshall, OK (Extended)	2011-09-28
Ringwood, OK (Extended)	1993-07-11
Lamont, OK (Extended and Co-located with C1)	1993-07-20
Tryon, OK (Extended)	2011-10-05
Ashton, KS (Extended)	1993-07-11
Morrison, OK (Extended)	2015-09-30
Pawhuska, OK (Extended)	1993-09-29
Byron, OK (Extended)	2016-08-04
Medford, OK (Extended)	2011-09-28

Related Publications

2021

Lawston-Parker P, J Santanello, and S Kumar. 2021. "Understanding the Impacts of Land Surface and PBL Observations on the Terrestrial and Atmospheric Legs of Land–Atmosphere Coupling." Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(9), 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0263.1.

Krishnamurthy R, R Newsom, L Berg, H Xiao, P Ma, and D Turner. 2021. "On the estimation of boundary layer heights: a machine learning approach." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14(6), 10.5194/amt-14-4403-2021.

Yang Z, M Huang, L Berg, Y Qian, W Gustafson, Y Fang, Y Liu, J Fast, K Sakaguchi, and S Tai. 2021. "Impact of Lateral Flow on Surface Water and Energy Budgets over the Southern Great Plains – A Modeling Study." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(12), e2020JD033659, 10.1029/2020JD033659.

Zhu W, J Wei, H Xiu, S Jia, and A Lv. 2021. "Coupled and continuous estimation of soil moisture and evaporative fraction within the remotely sensed surface temperature-vegetation index framework." Journal of Hydrology, 592, 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125827.

Krishnamurthy R, R Newsom, D Chand, and WJ Shaw. 2021. Boundary Layer Climatology at ARM Southern Great Plains. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. PNNL-30832. 10.2172/1779279.

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