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July 29 to |
A technical short
course with focus on the use of micrometeorological methods to obtain and
analyze fluxes of momentum, heat and gases by eddy-covariance. |
Instructors:
HaPe Schmid, Matthias Mauder, Rainer Steinbrecher, Ingo Völksch, Luise Wanner,
Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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Contact: rainer.steinbrecher@kit.edu
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Monday, 10:30
AM - 10.45 AM Coffee 12:15
AM - 01:00 PM |
Seminar Room and Field Site: Welcome and orientation Introduction in EC instruments
and station set-up in the field; Wiring of instruments; connect to logger; data logger programming, test program and monitor instrument
readings. Field set up. Instruments: CSAT-3/Gill HS50, LICOR 7500/7200, CR3000 logger. CR-Basic program. Lunch |
Schmid, Mauder, Steinbrecher, Völksch, Wanner
reading: Aubinet et al,.2012; |
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03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Coffee 05:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Turbulent exchange measurements –
theory (1) Boundary layer turbulence, Reynolds decomposition,
turbulence statistics, turbulent kinetic energy, buoyancy effects, atmospheric
stability, Monin-Obukhov similarity, energy cascade, time series analysis,
Measurements vs. theory, turbulent flux vs. land surface – atmosphere
exchange, turbulent exchange drivers and control processes. End |
Schmid reading: Aubinet et al,.2012; |
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Tuesday, 10:30 AM - 10.45 AM Coffee 12:15 AM - 01:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Turbulent exchange measurements –
theory (2) (continued) Coffee Lunch |
Schmid reading: Aubinet et al,.2012; |
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01:00 PM |
Field site: Group: download data and check system; preview data |
Schmid, Steinbrecher,Völksch,
Wanner |
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03:00 AM - 03:30 PM Coffee 05:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Calculations of turbulence statistics (R-Software): mean and fluctuations;
variance, turbulence intensity; TKE; covariance; lagged covariance function;
momentum, heat and gas fluxes; End |
Wanner, Schmid reading: Stull 1988; |
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Wednesday, |
Field site: Group: download data and check system; preview data |
Völksch, Wanner |
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10:30
AM - 10.45 AM Coffee 12:15
AM - 01:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Flux calculations (1) Coordinate rotations; Schotanus correction; WPL conversion;
Lunch |
Schmid,
Wanner reading: Aubinet et al. 2012 |
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01:00 PM 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Coffee 05:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Flux calculations (2) stationarity; detrending; block-averaging; impact of
varying average interval; End |
Schmid, Wanner reading: Finnigan et al. 2003; Leuning
2007 |
Thursday, |
Field site: Group: download data and check system; preview data |
Steinbrecher, Wanner |
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09:30
AM 10:30
AM - 10.45 AM Coffee 12:15
AM - 01:00 PM |
Seminar Room: QA/QC of long-term flux
measurements: Uncertainty and systematic
errors (spectral cut off at low/high frequency; fetch/footprint;
low-turbulence / u*) Introduction in the software TK3 and presentation of
other freely available software packages such as EddyPro. Lunch |
Mauder
reading: Mauder et al. 2013 |
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Coffee |
Seminar Room: Comparison of different flux calculation schemes own scripts vs. TK3 results |
Mauder, Steinbrecher, Wanner |
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03:30 PM 05:00 PM 07:00 PM |
Preparation of Results and Student Panel Discussion Student selected topics (ca. 10 min) End Joint course dinner |
Schmid,
Mauder, Steinbrecher, Wanner |
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Friday, 10:30 AM - 10.45 AM Coffee 12:15 AM - 01:00 PM |
Seminar Room: Presentations of Results and Panel Discussion Active participation required for conferral of ECTS Lunch |
Schmid, Mauder, Steinbrecher, Wanner |
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01:00 PM |
Field site: Group: take down instruments Seminar Room: Wrap-up |
Schmid, Mauder, Steinbrecher, Völksch, Wanner |
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03:00 PM |
Departure |
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