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Eddy Covariance Measurements Over Urban Areas

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Throughout the last two decades, numerous research projects applied the eddy covariance (EC) approach to urban ecosystems to directly measure turbulent fluxes between the urban surface and the atmosphere to quantify the exchange of energy, water vapor, greenhouse gases, air pollutants, and aerosols in connection with the assessment of (air pollutant) dispersion and of the urban energy, water, and carbon balances. Numerical models for dispersion, air pollution, and weather forecasting in cities rely on parameterization schemes for turbulence and surface exchange, which should take into account the implications that arise from the extremely rough surface of cities.

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  1. Institute of Meteorology, Climatology and Remote Sensing, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Feigenwinter & Roland Vogt

  2. Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Andreas Christen

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  1. Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Unit of Biosystem Physics, Université de Liège, Passage des Deportés 2, Gembloux, 5030, Belgium

    Marc Aubinet

  2. Dept. Economics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Timo Vesala

  3. Department for Innovation in Biological,, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, Via Camillo de Lellis, Viterbo, 01100, Italy

    Dario Papale

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Feigenwinter, C., Vogt, R., Christen, A. (2012). Eddy Covariance Measurements Over Urban Areas. In: Aubinet, M., Vesala, T., Papale, D. (eds) Eddy Covariance. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2351-1_16

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