Journal: Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, Volume 171-172: 31-45 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.023 Sites: CA-Ca1, CA-Ca2, CA-Ca3, CA-Gro, CA-Let, CA-Mer, CA-NS1, CA-Oas, CA-Obs, CA-Ojp, CA-Qfo, CA-SJ1, CA-SJ2, CA-SJ3, CA-TP4, CA-WP1, US-ARM, US-Dk3, US-Ha1, US-Ho1, US-IB1, US-Los, US-Me3, US-Me5, US-MMS, US-MOz, US-Ne1, US-Ne2, US-Ne3, US-NR1, US-Shd, US-SO2, US-Syv, US-Ton, US-UMB, US-Var, US-WCr
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 18 (2): 566-584 (2012). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02562.x Sites: CA-Oas, CA-Obs, CA-Ojp, CA-Qfo, US-Ha1, US-Ho1, US-MMS, US-NR1, US-UMB, US-WCr
Sonic anemometers simultaneously measure the turbulent fluctuations of vertical wind (w’) and sonic temperature (Ts’), and are commonly used to measure sensible heat flux (H). Our study examines 30-min heat fluxes measured with a Campbell Scientific CSAT3 sonic anemometer above a subalpine forest. We compared H calculated with Ts …
Journal: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Volume 5 (9): 2095-2111 (2012). DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2095-2012 Sites: US-NR1
Air temperature Ta, specific humidity q, CO2 mole fraction χJournal: Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Volume 138 (2): 231-262 (2011). DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9560-6 Sites: US-NR1
High-elevation forests represent a large fraction of potential carbon uptake in North America, but this uptake is not well constrained by observations. Additionally, forests in the Rocky Mountains have recently been severely damaged by drought, fire, and insect outbreaks, which have been quantified at local scales but not assessed …
Journal: Journal Of Geophysical Research, Volume 116 (G04009): 1-16 (2011). DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001655 Sites: US-NR1
We measured the carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of ecosystem respiration (δ13CR) in a subalpine forest across four growing seasons to examine whether patterns in δ13CR were consistent with those expected based on leaf-level gas-exchange theory, …
Journal: Journal Of Geophysical Research, Volume 116 (G2): 1-15 (2011). DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001556 Sites: US-NR1
A significant fraction of Earth consists of mountainous terrain. However, the question of how to monitor the surface–atmosphere carbon exchange over complex terrain has not been fully explored. This article reports on studies by a team of investigators from U.S. universities and research institutes who carried out a multiscale …
Journal: Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, Volume 91 (2): 209-230 (2010). DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2733.1 Sites: US-NR1
As global temperatures increase, the potential for longer growing seasons to enhance the terrestrial carbon sink has been proposed as a mechanism to reduce the rate of further warming. At the Niwot Ridge AmeriFlux site, a subalpine forest in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, we used a 9‐year record (1999–2007) of continuous eddy …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume 16 (2): 771-783 (2010). DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01967.x Sites: US-NR1
Ecosystem water-use efficiency (eWUE; the ratio of net ecosystem productivity to evapotranspiration rate) is a complex landscape-scale parameter controlled by both physical and biological processes occurring in soil and plants. Leaf WUE (lWUE; the ratio of leaf CO2 assimilation rate to transpiration rate) is controlled at short time …
Journal: Oecologia, Volume 162 (2): 491-504 (2010). DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1465-z Sites: US-NR1
• Understanding controls over plant–atmosphere CO 2 exchange is important for
quantifying carbon budgets across a range of spatial and temporal scales. In this
study, we used a simple approach to estimate whole-tree CO 2 assimilation rate
(A Tree ) in a subalpine forest ecosystem.
• We analysed the carbon isotope ratio …
Journal: New Phytologist, Volume 185 (4): 1000-1015 (2010). DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03154.x Sites: US-NR1