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Over 100-fold improvement in the accuracy of relaxed eddy accumulation flux estimates through error diffusion
Anas Emad
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Measurements of atmosphere-surface exchange are largely limited by the availability of fast-response gas analyzers; this limitation hampers our understanding of the role of terrestrial ecosystems in atmospheric chemistry and global change. Current micrometeorological methods, compatible with slow-response gas analyzers, are difficult to implement, or rely on empirical parameters that introduce large systematic errors. Here, we develop a new micrometeorological method, optimized for slow-response gas analyzers, that directly measures exchange rates of different atmospheric constituents, with minimal requirements. The new method requires only the sampling of air at a constant rate and directing it into one of two reservoirs, depending on the direction of the vertical wind velocity. An integral component of the new technique is an error diffusion algorithm that minimizes the biases in the measured fluxes and achieves direct flux estimates. We demonstrate that the new method provides an unbiased estimate of the flux, with accuracy within 0.1 of the reference eddy covariance flux, and importantly, allows for significant enhancements in the signal-to-noise ratio of measured scalars without compromising accuracy. Our new method provides a simple and reliable way to address complex environmental questions and offers a promising avenue for advancing our understanding of ecological systems and atmospheric chemistry.
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