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Record W1891120566 · doi:10.14288/1.0088118

Evaporation within and above a boreal aspen forest

2009· article· en· W1891120566 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Peter D. Blanken

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTaigaBorealEnvironmental scienceForestryGeographyEcologyBiology

Abstract

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As part of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, water vapour, heat, CO₂ and momentum exchange between the atmosphere and a southern boreal aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest in central Saskatchewan, Canada (53.629 °N, 106.200 °W) were measured continuously throughout much of 1994 using the eddy-covariance method. Measurements were made both above the c. 21.5-m tall 70 year-old aspen stand and within the leafless trunk space above a lush c. 2-m tall hazelnut (Corylus cornuta Marsh.) understory. This research focused on the measurements of and processes controlling water vapour exchange within and above the aspen canopy. Above-canopy turbulent exchange was dominated by large, slowly rotating eddies whereas in-canopy exchange was dominated by the intermittent, downward penetration of gusts. A constant flux layer redeveloped beneath the aspen canopy making eddy-covariance measurements possible. Nocturnal eddy fluxes were often underestimated at both heights due to spatial heterogeneity in turbulence statistics caused by low wind speeds. These periods were identified from the height-independent similarity function normalized by that expected from Monin-Obukhov theory and were empirically corrected as a function of friction velocity. Erratic daytime flux behaviour was corrected on the basis of conservation of energy and partitioning of the missing energy using the original eddy fluxes of latent and sensible heat. Evapotranspiration from the forest accounted for 82-91% of the annual precipitation. Aspen, hazelnut transpiration and soil water evaporation were 68%, 27% and 5%, respectively, of the total annual evapotranspiration. Over the growing season. there was no net change in the soil water content and there was little drainage beyond the root zone. Understory radiation levels decreased exponentially with increasing aspen leaf area. Surface conductance to water vapour was a linear function of forest leaf area and was dominated by the aspen canopy. Aspen and hazelnut canopy conductances decreased non-linearly with increasing saturation deficit and were best parameterized by net assimilation divided by the product of the mole fractions of leaf-level saturation deficit and CO₂ concentration. The accommodation of the transpiring vegetation by the atmosphere was quantified using the Priestley and Taylor α and the McNaughton and Jarvis Ω parameters.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.114

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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