Estimation of Turbulent Fluxes Using the Flux-Variance Method over an Alpine Meadow Surface in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau  

作　　者：WANG Shaoying ZHANG Yu LU Shihua LIU Heping SHANG Lunyu 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Land Surface and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Regions, Cold and Arid Regions,Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000 [2]Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

出　　处：《Advances in Atmospheric Sciences》2013年第2期411-424,共14页大气科学进展（英文版）

基　　金：funding frown the Chinese National Key Programme for Developing Basic Sciences，the National Natural Science Foundation of China，the Key Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences，the National Natural Science Foundation of China，the Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars of CAREERI

摘　　要：The flux-variance similarity relation and the vertical transfer of scalars exhibit dissimilarity over different types of surfaces, resulting in different parameterization approaches of relative transport efficiency among scalars to estimate turbulent fluxes using the flux-variance method. We investigated these issues using eddycovariance measurements over an open, homogeneous and flat grassland in the eastern Tibetan Plateau in summer under intermediate hydrological conditions during rainy season. In unstable conditions, the temperature, water vapor, and CO2 followed the flux-variance similarity relation, but did not show in precisely the same way due to different roles （active or passive） of these scalars. Similarity constants of temperature, water vapor and CO2 were found to be 1.12, 1.19 and 1.17, respectively. Heat transportation was more eft% cient than water vapor and CO2. Based on the estimated sensible heat flux, five parameterization methods of relative transport efficiency of heat to water vapor and CO2 were examined to estimate latent heat and CO2 fluxes. The strategy of local determination of flux-variance similarity relation is recommended for the estimation of latent heat and CO2 fluxes. This approach is better for representing the averaged relative transport efficiency, and technically easier to apply, compared to other more complex ones.The flux-variance similarity relation and the vertical transfer of scalars exhibit dissimilarity over different types of surfaces, resulting in different parameterization approaches of relative transport efficiency among scalars to estimate turbulent fluxes using the flux-variance method. We investigated these issues using eddycovariance measurements over an open, homogeneous and flat grassland in the eastern Tibetan Plateau in summer under intermediate hydrological conditions during rainy season. In unstable conditions, the temperature, water vapor, and CO2 followed the flux-variance similarity relation, but did not show in precisely the same way due to different roles （active or passive） of these scalars. Similarity constants of temperature, water vapor and CO2 were found to be 1.12, 1.19 and 1.17, respectively. Heat transportation was more eft% cient than water vapor and CO2. Based on the estimated sensible heat flux, five parameterization methods of relative transport efficiency of heat to water vapor and CO2 were examined to estimate latent heat and CO2 fluxes. The strategy of local determination of flux-variance similarity relation is recommended for the estimation of latent heat and CO2 fluxes. This approach is better for representing the averaged relative transport efficiency, and technically easier to apply, compared to other more complex ones.

关 键 词：flux-variance method relative transfer efficiency eddy-covariance method homogeneous landsurface turbulent flux 

分 类 号：S714.7[农业科学—林学] P456.7