Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data

R. Iestyn Woolway; Ian D. Jones; David P. Hamilton; Stephen C Maberly; Kohji Muroaka; Jordan S. Read; Robyn L Smyth; Luke A. Winslow

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.013

Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data

Environmental Modelling and Software

By: R. Iestyn Woolway, Ian D. Jones, David P. Hamilton, Stephen C Maberly, Kohji Muroaka, Jordan S. Read, Robyn L Smyth, and Luke A. Winslow

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.013

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Lake Heat Flux Analyzer is a program used for calculating the surface energy fluxes in lakes according to established literature methodologies. The program was developed in MATLAB for the rapid analysis of high-frequency data from instrumented lake buoys in support of the emerging field of aquatic sensor network science. To calculate the surface energy fluxes, the program requires a number of input variables, such as air and water temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and short-wave radiation. Available outputs for Lake Heat Flux Analyzer include the surface fluxes of momentum, sensible heat and latent heat and their corresponding transfer coefficients, incoming and outgoing long-wave radiation. Lake Heat Flux Analyzer is open source and can be used to process data from multiple lakes rapidly. It provides a means of calculating the surface fluxes using a consistent method, thereby facilitating global comparisons of high-frequency data from lake buoys.

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Woolway, R., Jones, I.D., Hamilton, D., Maberly, S.C., Muroaka, K., Read, J.S., Smyth, R.L., and Winslow, L., 2015, Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data: Environmental Modelling and Software, v. 70, p. 191-198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.013.

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Publication type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Title	Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data
Series title	Environmental Modelling and Software
DOI	10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.013
Volume	70
Year Published	2015
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Description	8 p.
First page	191
Last page	198
Other Geospatial	Esthwaite Water, Lake Mendota, and Rotorua
Online Only (Y/N)	N
Additional Online Files (Y/N)	N