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SUMMERTIME CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOR, SENSIBLE HEAT, AND MOMENTUM FLUXES WITHIN AND ABOVE AN OLD-GROWTH AND SECOND-GROWTH COASTAL TEMPERATE RAINFOREST

Thomas S. King, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and K. T. Paw U, T. Hsiao, M. Falk, A. Moles, T. Matista, and J. Chen

Fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapor, sensible heat, and momentum were obtained at 2 m within and at 70 m above an old growth coastal temperate rainforest in Washington state. In addition, a concentration profile with measurements at eight levels is used to resolve gradients of carbon dioxide and water vapor throughout the forest canopy. These data provide input for a third order closure model, and from the data, turbulent statistics and spectra are computed to reveal the structure of atmospheric transport in and above this forest type. These measurements are made as part of a long term flux monitoring campaign in association with AmeriFlux.

The 23rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology