Peer review report 1 on “Assessment and simulation of global terrestrial latent heat flux by synthesis of CMIP5 climate models and surface eddy covariance observations”

2016 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 300-301
Author(s):  
Anonymous
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Eddy Covariance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Latent Heat Flux ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Cmip5 Climate Models

Scanning 10-W Water Vapor DIAL for the Investigation of Atmospheric Turbulence and Land-Atmosphere Feedback

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Behrendt ◽  
Florian Spaeth ◽  
Volker Wulfmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Atmospheric Turbulence ◽  
Latent Heat Flux ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Surface Characteristics ◽  
Scanning System ◽  
Forecast Models

<p>We will present recent measurements made with the water vapor differential absorption lidar (DIAL) of University of Hohenheim (UHOH). This scanning system has been developed in recent years for the investigation of atmospheric turbulence and land-atmosphere feedback processes.</p><p>The lidar is housed in a mobile trailer and participated in recent years in a number of national and international field campaigns. We will present examples of vertical pointing and scanning measurements, especially close to the canopy. The water vapor gradients in the surface layer are related to the latent heat flux. Thus, with such low-elevation scans, the latent heat flux distribution over different surface characteristics can be monitored, which is important to verify and improve both numerical weather forecast models and climate models.</p><p>The transmitter of the UHOH DIAL consists of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser which pumps a Ti:sapphire laser. The output power of this laser is up to 10 W. Two injection seeders are used to switch pulse-to-pulse between the online and offline signals. These signals are then either directly sent into the atmosphere or coupled into a fiber and guided to a transmitting telescope which is attached to the scanner unit. The receiving telescope has a primary mirror with a dimeter of 80 cm. The backscatter signals are recorded shot to shot and are typically averaged over 0.1 to 1 s.</p>

scholarly journals Quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget of the land surface: is this useful?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Brunsell ◽  
S. J. Schymanski ◽  
A. Kleidon
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Entropy Production ◽  
Eddy Covariance ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Latent Heat Flux ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Thermodynamic Entropy ◽  
Entropy Budget

Abstract. As a system is moved away from a state of thermodynamic equilibrium, spatial and temporal heterogeneity is induced. A possible methodology to assess these impacts is to examine the thermodynamic entropy budget and assess the role of entropy production and transfer between the surface and the atmosphere. Here, we adopted this thermodynamic framework to examine the implications of changing vegetation fractional cover on land surface energy exchange processes using the NOAH land surface model and eddy covariance observations. Simulations that varied the relative fraction of vegetation were used to calculate the resultant entropy budget as a function of fraction of vegetation. Results showed that increasing vegetation fraction increases entropy production by the land surface while decreasing the overall entropy budget (the rate of change in entropy at the surface). This is accomplished largely via simultaneous increase in the entropy production associated with the absorption of solar radiation and a decline in the Bowen ratio (ratio of sensible to latent heat flux), which leads to increasing the entropy export associated with the latent heat flux during the daylight hours and dominated by entropy transfer associated with sensible heat and soil heat fluxes during the nighttime hours. Eddy covariance observations also show that the entropy production has a consistent sensitivity to land cover, while the overall entropy budget appears most related to the net radiation at the surface, however with a large variance. This implies that quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget and entropy production is a useful metric for assessing biosphere-atmosphere-hydrosphere system interactions.

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