Turbulent transport of energy across a forest and a semiarid shrubland

Banerjee, Tirtha; Brugger, Peter; De Roo, Frederik; Kröniger, Konstantin; Yakir, Dan; Rotenberg, Eyal; Mauder, Matthias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10025-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10025-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10025-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 13

Research article

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16 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 16 Jul 2018

Turbulent transport of energy across a forest and a semiarid shrubland

Tirtha Banerjee, Peter Brugger, Frederik De Roo, Konstantin Kröniger, Dan Yakir, Eyal Rotenberg, and Matthias Mauder

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RC1: 'Review comments', Gil Bohrer, 09 May 2017
RC2: 'Interactive comment to "Turbulent transport of energy across a forest and a semi-arid shrubland” by Banerjee et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 May 2017
AC1: 'Response to comments by reviewer 1, Prof. Gil Bohrer.', Tirtha Banerjee, 01 Feb 2018
AC2: 'Response to comments by reviewer 2', Tirtha Banerjee, 01 Feb 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Tirtha Banerjee on behalf of the Authors (29 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Apr 2018) by Thomas Karl

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Apr 2018)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (09 Apr 2018) by Thomas Karl

AR by Tirtha Banerjee on behalf of the Authors (03 Jul 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Jul 2018) by Thomas Karl

AR by Tirtha Banerjee on behalf of the Authors (08 Jul 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

We studied the nature of turbulent transport over a well-defined surface heterogeneity (approximate scale 7 km) comprising a shrubland and a forest in the Yatir semiarid area in Israel. Using eddy covariance and Doppler lidar measurements, we studied the variations in the turbulent kinetic energy budget and turbulent fluxes, focusing especially on transport terms. We also confirmed the role of large-scale secondary circulations that transport energy between the shrubland and the forest.