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Buoyancy and the sensible heat flux budget within dense canopies (Articolo in rivista)

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Buoyancy and the sensible heat flux budget within dense canopies (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

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Cava D.; Katul G.; Scrimieri A., Poggi D.; Cescatti A.; and Giostra U. (2006)
Buoyancy and the sensible heat flux budget within dense canopies
in Boundary-layer meteorology (Dordrecht. Online)
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Cava D.; Katul G.; Scrimieri A., Poggi D.; Cescatti A.; and Giostra U. (literal)

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CNR - Institute of Atmosphere Sciences and Climate U.O. of Lecce, Lecce, Italy Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, also at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Centro di Ecologia Alpina, 38040 Viote del Monte Bondone (Trento), Italy Environmental Science Department, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy (literal)

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In contrast to atmospheric surface layer (ASL) turbulence, a linear relationship between turbulent heat fluxes (F_T) and mean air temperature gradients within canopies is frustrated by numerous factors including local variation in heat sources and sinks and large scale eddy motion whose signature is often linked with the ejection-sweep cycle. Furthermore, how atmospheric stability modifies such a relationship remains poorly understood, especially in stable canopy flows. To date, no explicit model exists for relating F_T to the mean air temperature gradient, buoyancy, and the statistical properties of the ejection-sweep cycle within the canopy volume. Using third order cumulant expansion methods (CEM) and the heat flux budget equation, a \"diagnostic\" analytical relationship that links ejections and sweeps and the sensible heat flux for a wide range of atmospheric stability classes is derived. Closure model assumptions that relate scalar dissipation rates with sensible heat flux, and the validity of CEM in linking ejections and sweeps with the triple scalar-velocity correlations were tested for a mixed hardwood forest in Lavarone, Italy. We showed that when the heat sources (S_T) and F_T have the same sign (i.e. canopy is heating and sensible heat flux is positive), sweeps dominate the sensible heat flux. Conversely, if S_T and F_T are opposite in sign, standard gradient-diffusion closure model predict ejections must dominate the sensible heat flux. (literal)

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