Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data. (August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Woolway, R. Iestyn; Jones, Ian D.; Hamilton, David P.; Maberly, Stephen C.; Muraoka, Kohji; Read, Jordan S.; Smyth, Robyn L.; Winslow, Luke A.
• Is Part Of: Environmental modelling & software. Volume 70(2015:Aug.)
• Page Start: 191
• Page End: 198
• Publication Date: 2015-08
• Subjects: Software -- GLEON -- Instrumented buoy -- Heat flux -- Sensor technology; Environmental monitoring -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Ecology -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Digital computer simulation -- Periodicals; Computer software -- Periodicals; Environmental Monitoring -- Periodicals; Computer Simulation -- Periodicals; Environnement -- Surveillance -- Logiciels -- Périodiques; Écologie -- Simulation, Méthodes de -- Périodiques; Simulation par ordinateur -- Périodiques; Logiciels -- Périodiques; Computer software; Digital computer simulation; Ecology -- Computer simulation; Environmental monitoring -- Computer programs; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 363.70015118
• DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.04.013
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-8152

Abstract

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.