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The influence of leaf wetness on the depostion velocity of water soluble gases

BITÖK-A 3

From 01/1998 to 12/2000

Principal Investigator: Otto Klemm
Staff: Thomas Foken
Grant: 0339476 C Grundlagen zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Ökosystemen bei veränderter Umwelt

The influence of leaf wetness on the deposition velocity of water-soluble trace gases is investigated by use of leaf wetness clip sensors. For these sensors we developed an algorithm to compute leaf wetness as a quantitative, continuously measurable parameter that can be usefully applied in ecosystem research. Throughout the year 1998, we conducted measurements at three ecosystem research sites in Germany and the Netherlands. By use of the acquired data, we will develop a "climatology" of leaf wetness and further characterize it as a parameter in plant ecology and micrometeorology. Further, we conducted laboratory tests to prepare the intensive field experiments of the spring, summer, and fall seasons 1999.

List of publications of this Project

Klemm, O; Milford, C; Sutton, MA; van Putten, E; Spindler, G: A climatology of leaf surface wetness, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 71, 107-117 (2002) -- Details
Klemm, O; Burkhardt, J; Gerchau, J: Leaf Wetness: A Quantifiable Parameter in Deposition Studies in Borell, P.M. and Borell, P.: Proceedings of EUROTRAC Symposium "98: Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere, 238-242 (1999)
Burkhardt, J: Dünne Wasserfilme auf Fichtennadeln und ihr Einfluß auf den Stoffaustausch zwischen Atmosphäre und Pflanze in Bayreuther Institut für Terrestrische Ökosystemforschung (BITÖK): Bayreuther Forum Ökologie, Selbstverlag, 9, 1-135 (1994)

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