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The transport of energy, moisture and ozone in the atmospheric boundary layer over heterogeneous terrain was investigated in the context of the field experiment TRACT. An area of 12 km by 10 km in the upper Rhine valley was selected for this study of small scale inhomogeneities. Three powered gliders performed measurements to investigate the horizontal variability of near surface fluxes of energy, moisture and ozone, to derive vertical profiles of these fluxes, and to study the effects of land-use and local emissions on these fluxes. The extrapolation of the flux profiles gives estimates of the surface fluxes which are compared with data from surface stations. Another aircraft equipped for atmospheric chemistry measurements was flying in the main area of TRACT to study the vertical and horizontal distribution of pollutants on a larger scale.
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Jochum, A.M., C.S. Strodl, H. Willeke, N. Entstrasser; The transport of heat, moisture and ozone in the atmospheric boundary layer in the Upper Rhine Valley, in: P.M. Borrell, P. Borrell, T. Cvitaš, W. Seiler (eds), Proc. EUROTRAC Symp.’ 94, SPB Academic Publishing bv, The Hague 1994, pp. 766–769.
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Jochum, A.M., Strodl, C., Willeke, H., Entstrasser, N., Schlager, H. (2000). Transport Processes over Complex Terrain. In: Larsen, S.E., Fiedler, F., Borrell, P. (eds) Exchange and Transport of Air Pollutants over Complex Terrain and the Sea. Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57252-4_31
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