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1. Glossary

AmeriFlux

The AmeriFlux network is a community of sites and scientists measuring ecosystem carbon, water, and energy fluxes across the Americas, and committed to producing and sharing high quality eddy covariance data.

EC

Eddy Covariance

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organisation, a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Fetch

Area influencing a sensor. Typically the area upwind of the sensor.

LAI

Leaf Area Index

Obukhov Length (\(L\))

A parameter with dimension of length that gives a relation between parameters characterizing dynamic, thermal, and buoyant processes. More detailed explanation refers to AMS wiki.

OHM

Objective Hysteresis Model

SEB

Surface Energy Balance

URAO

University of Reading Atmospheric Observatory