Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5315-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5315-2016
Research article
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28 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2016

Comparison of eddy covariance and modified Bowen ratio methods for measuring gas fluxes and implications for measuring fluxes of persistent organic pollutants

Damien Johann Bolinius, Annika Jahnke, and Matthew MacLeod

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Our article confronts the question of how to accurately measure fluxes of volatile chemicals between the earth's surface and the atmosphere when the possibility of using high-frequency analyzers, such as with eddy covariance techniques, is non-existent. By subsampling and averaging publically available data from FLUXNET and applying the modified Bowen ratio method (MBR), we have determined that the MBR can work when using prolonged sampling times and single average estimates of eddy diffusivity.
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