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.
EBBR
ebbr: Energy Balance Bowen Ratio Station
Locations
- Fixed
- AMF1
- AMF2
- AMF3
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2019
Sullivan R, V Kotamarthi, and Y Feng. 2019. "Recovering evapotranspiration trends from biased CMIP5 simulations and sensitivity to changing climate over North America." Journal of Hydrometeorology, , 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0259.1. ONLINE.
Cook DR and RC Sullivan. 2019. Energy Balance Bowen Ratio (EBBR) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research. DOE/SC-ARM/TR-037.
Tang S, S Xie, M Zhang, Q Tang, Y Zhang, S Klein, D Cook, and R Sullivan. 2019. "Differences in Eddy‐Correlation and Energy‐Balance Surface Turbulent Heat Flux Measurements and Their Impacts on the Large‐Scale Forcing Fields at the ARM SGP Site." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(6), 10.1029/2018JD029689.
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Lu Y, J Dong, and S Steele-Dunne. 2019. "Impact of soil moisture data resolution on soil moisture and surface heat flux estimates through data assimilation - A case study in the Southern Great Plains." Journal of Hydrometeorology, 124(6), 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0234.1.
Sullivan R, D Cook, V Ghate, V Kotamarthi, and Y Feng. 2019. "Improved Spatiotemporal Representativeness and Bias Reduction of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Retrievals via Use of In Situ Meteorology and Constrained Canopy Surface Resistance." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, , 10.1029/2018JG004744. ONLINE.
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2018
Lee J, Y Zhang, and S Klein. 2018. "The effect of land surface heterogeneity and background wind on shallow cumulus clouds and the transition to deeper convection." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(2), 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0196.1.
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Williams I. 2018. "Evaluating soil moisture feedback on convective triggering: Roles of convective and land‐model parameterizations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(1), 10.1029/2018JD029326.
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Tang Q, S Xie, Y Zhang, T Phillips, J Santanello, D Cook, L Riihimaki, and K Gaustad. 2018. "Heterogeneity in Warm-Season Land-Atmosphere Coupling Over the U.S. Southern Great Plains." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(15), 10.1029/2018JD028463.
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Welty J and X Zeng. 2018. "Does Soil Moisture Affect Warm Season Precipitation Over the Southern Great Plains?" Geophysical Research Letters, 45(15), 10.1029/2018GL078598.
Torn MS, L Kueppers, SC Biraud, and DP Billesbach. 2018. Portable Flux Tower Deployments Field Campaign Report. Ed. by Robert Stafford, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-18-022.
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