Abstract
Abstract. The WPL (Webb,
Pearman, and Leuning) correction is fully accepted to
correct trace gas fluxes like CO2 for density fluctuations due to water
vapour and temperature fluctuations for open-path gas analysers. It is known
that this additive correction can be on the order of magnitude of the actual
flux. However, this is hardly ever included in the analysis of data quality.
An example from the Arctic shows the problems, because the size of the
correction is a multiple of the actual flux. As a general result, we
examined and tabulated the magnitude of the WPL correction for carbon
dioxide flux as a function of sensible and latent heat flux. Furthermore, we
propose a parameter to better estimate possible deficits in data quality and
recommend integrating the quality flag derived with this parameter into the
general study of small carbon dioxide fluxes.
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