In order to provide high quality data for climate change studies, the data quality of turbulent flux measurements at the station of SACOL （Semi-Arid Climate ＆ Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University）, which i...In order to provide high quality data for climate change studies, the data quality of turbulent flux measurements at the station of SACOL （Semi-Arid Climate ＆ Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University）, which is located on a semi-arid grassland over the Loess Plateau in China, has been analyzed in detail. The effects of different procedures of the flux corrections on CO2, momentum, and latent and sensible heat fluxes were assessed. The result showed that coordinate rotation has a great influence on the momentum flux but little on scalar fluxes. For coordinate rotation using the planar fit method, different regression planes should be determined for different wind direction sectors due to the heterogeneous nature of the ground surface. Sonic temperature correction decreased the sensible heat flux by about 9%, while WPL correction （correction for density fluctuations） increased the latent heat flux by about 10%. WPL correction is also particularly important for CO2 fluxes. Other procedures of flux corrections, such as the time delay correction and frequency response correction, do not significantly influence the turbulent fluxes. Furthermore, quality tests on stationarity and turbulence development conditions were discussed. Parameterizations of integral turbulent characteristics （ITC） were tested and a specific parameterization scheme was provided for SACOL. The ITC test on turbulence development conditions was suggested to be applied only for the vertical velocity. The combined results of the quality tests showed that about 62%-65% of the total data were of high quality for the latent heat flux and CO2 flux, and as much as about 76% for the sensible heat flux. For the momentum flux, however, only about 35% of the data were of high quality.展开更多
The DGPS technique can provide considerably better relative positioning accuracy than the stand_alone GPS positioning,but the improvement depends on the distance between the user and the reference station (spatial cor...The DGPS technique can provide considerably better relative positioning accuracy than the stand_alone GPS positioning,but the improvement depends on the distance between the user and the reference station (spatial correlation),the latency of differential corrections (temporal correlation),and the quality of differential corrections.Therefore,how to correctly generate differential corrections as well as their pricision is very important to the DGPS positioning technique.This paper presents a new algorithm for generating differential GPS corrections.This algorithm directly uses code and carrier observations in the measurement model of a Kalman filter,so that it is possible to use a simple stochastic model and to use the standard algorithm of the Kalman filter.The algorithm accounts for biases like multipath errors and instrumental delays in code observations and it shows how differential corrections are differently affected by code biases when dual or single frequency data is used.In addition,the algorithm can be integrated with a real time quality control procedure.As a result,the quality of differential corrections can be guaranteed with a certain probability.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China un-der Grant Nos40633017 and 40725015
文摘In order to provide high quality data for climate change studies, the data quality of turbulent flux measurements at the station of SACOL （Semi-Arid Climate ＆ Environment Observatory of Lanzhou University）, which is located on a semi-arid grassland over the Loess Plateau in China, has been analyzed in detail. The effects of different procedures of the flux corrections on CO2, momentum, and latent and sensible heat fluxes were assessed. The result showed that coordinate rotation has a great influence on the momentum flux but little on scalar fluxes. For coordinate rotation using the planar fit method, different regression planes should be determined for different wind direction sectors due to the heterogeneous nature of the ground surface. Sonic temperature correction decreased the sensible heat flux by about 9%, while WPL correction （correction for density fluctuations） increased the latent heat flux by about 10%. WPL correction is also particularly important for CO2 fluxes. Other procedures of flux corrections, such as the time delay correction and frequency response correction, do not significantly influence the turbulent fluxes. Furthermore, quality tests on stationarity and turbulence development conditions were discussed. Parameterizations of integral turbulent characteristics （ITC） were tested and a specific parameterization scheme was provided for SACOL. The ITC test on turbulence development conditions was suggested to be applied only for the vertical velocity. The combined results of the quality tests showed that about 62%-65% of the total data were of high quality for the latent heat flux and CO2 flux, and as much as about 76% for the sensible heat flux. For the momentum flux, however, only about 35% of the data were of high quality.
文摘The DGPS technique can provide considerably better relative positioning accuracy than the stand_alone GPS positioning,but the improvement depends on the distance between the user and the reference station (spatial correlation),the latency of differential corrections (temporal correlation),and the quality of differential corrections.Therefore,how to correctly generate differential corrections as well as their pricision is very important to the DGPS positioning technique.This paper presents a new algorithm for generating differential GPS corrections.This algorithm directly uses code and carrier observations in the measurement model of a Kalman filter,so that it is possible to use a simple stochastic model and to use the standard algorithm of the Kalman filter.The algorithm accounts for biases like multipath errors and instrumental delays in code observations and it shows how differential corrections are differently affected by code biases when dual or single frequency data is used.In addition,the algorithm can be integrated with a real time quality control procedure.As a result,the quality of differential corrections can be guaranteed with a certain probability.
