The energy balance closure problem: an overview

• Published in: Ecological applications Vol. 18; no. 6; p. 1351
• Main Author: Foken, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2008
• Subjects: Air Movements; Ecosystem; Energy Transfer; Hot Temperature; Models, Theoretical; Plants - metabolism; Sunlight

This paper gives an overview of 20 years of research on the energy balance closure problem. It will be shown that former assumptions that measuring errors or storage terms are the reason for the unclosed energy balance do not stand up because even turbulent fluxes derived from documented methods and...