Print Email Facebook Twitter Dew Formation, Eddy-Correlation Latent Heat Fluxes, and the Surface Energy Imbalance at Cabauw During Stable Conditions Title Dew Formation, Eddy-Correlation Latent Heat Fluxes, and the Surface Energy Imbalance at Cabauw During Stable Conditions Author De Roode, S.R. Bosveld, F.C. Kroon, P.S. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Multi-Scale Physics Date 2010-03-07 Abstract Observations collected between 2000 and 2008 at the Cabauw meteorological measurement platform in the Netherlands were conditionally sampled to select nights with stably stratified atmospheric conditions, clear skies and weak horizontal wind speeds (<3ms?1). For these conditions the eddy-correlation latent heat fluxes are found to be negligibly small, while the conditionally sampled surface energy balance exhibits a maximum residual. However, inspection of the specific humidities for these conditions reveals systematic drying trends that are a maximum at the lowest measurement level above the surface. These drying trends occur for any prevailing wind direction. Latent heat fluxes are calculated from the humidity budget equation and from a Penman-Monteith dewfall model, with the results suggesting that during clear, stable nights the observed latent heat fluxes as obtained from the eddy-correlation technique are erroneously small. Subject CabauwDewSurface energy balanceStable boundary layersTurbulent fluxes To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a4ec051b-4144-48f2-b0e1-209f31f89484 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-010-9476-1 Publisher Springer ISSN 1573-1472 Source Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 135 (3), 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2010 The Author(s. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF roode.pdf 400.12 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a4ec051b-4144-48f2-b0e1-209f31f89484/datastream/OBJ/view