Comments on ‘An observational study of heat fluxes and their relationship with net radiation’, by D. Camuffo and A. Bernardi

✍ Scribed by H. Lettau

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 345 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-8314
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00119464

✦ Synopsis

Recently, Camuffo and Bemardi (1982) published a study aimed at finding a general time-dependent formulation of the fluxes of heat in the balance equation at the soil/air interface, #=G+H+LE, (1) where 0 = net radiation, G and H = fluxes of sensible heat into the ground and the air, respectively, and LE = flux of latent heat into the air. They introduce what they call two 'general equations': G(r) = a, O(t) + a, dQ/dt + a3, (2) LE(t) = b, Q(t) + b, dO/dt + b3, (3) where t is the independent variable of time and the six constants (a, b) are empirical coefficients; a fourth equation follows from (1) through (3), H(t) = (1a, -b,)@(t) -(a2 + b,) dD/dt -(a3 + b,) .