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Harmonised gap-filled flux tower observations from 20 urban sites (Urban-PLUMBER)

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Gap-filled flux tower observations with site characteristics for Urban-PLUMBER, for evaluating urban land surface models.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7104984
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CC BY 4.0 Free to use and share, including commercially, as long as you credit the creators.
Size
726 MB · 20 sites

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Lipson, M., Grimmond, S., Best, M., Chow, W., Christen, A., Chrysoulakis, N., Coutts, A., Crawford, B., Earl, S., & Evans, J. (2022). Data for "Harmonized gap-filled dataset from 20 urban flux tower sites" for the Urban-PLUMBER project [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7104984

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Details

Resource
Measurements
Method
Field
Geometry
City scale
Topic
Urban boundary layer
Quantities
Heat flux, Temperature, Radiation
Instrument
Eddy covariance
Year
2022
Creators
Mathew Lipson; Sue Grimmond; Martin Best; Winston Chow; Andreas Christen; Nektarios Chrysoulakis; Andrew Coutts; Ben Crawford; Stevan Earl; Jonathan Evans
Institution
Albert-Ludwigs-University; Arizona State University; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics; Korea Environment Institute; Met Office, UK

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