Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6963152 | Environmental Modelling & Software | 2015 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
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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Authors
R. Iestyn Woolway, Ian D. Jones, David P. Hamilton, Stephen C. Maberly, Kohji Muraoka, Jordan S. Read, Robyn L. Smyth, Luke A. Winslow,