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The turbulence within and immediately above a vegetation canopy is the driver of the exchange processes of heat, trace gases and particles between the soil, the plants and the atmosphere above.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), 28040, Madrid, Spain

    M. Theobald

  2. INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, F-78850, Thiverval-Grignon, France

    B. Loubet

  3. Air Pollution and Climate Group, Research Station Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

    C. Ammann

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, D. Obradovica Sq 8, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    L. Branislava

  5. Meterology Department, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649, Poznan, Poland

    B. Chojnicki & J. Olejnik

  6. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

    L. Ganzeveld & M. Shapkalijevski

  7. Department of Meteorology, Eotvos Lorand University, Pazmany Peter s. 1/a, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    B. Grosz & T. Weidinger

  8. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    M. Kaasik

  9. Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

    S. Noe

  10. Department of Matter and Energy Fluxes, Global Change Research Center, AS CR, v.v.i. Belidla 986/4a, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    J. Olejnik

  11. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    J. Rinne

  12. Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway

    D. Simpson

  13. Department Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    D. Simpson

  14. CESAM and Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    O. Tchepel

  15. Finnish Meteorological Institute, 503, FI, 00101, Helsinki, Finland

    J.-P. Tuovinen

  16. TNO, Climate, Air and Sustainability, P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    R. Wichink Kruit

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  1. Equipe BioAtm, INRA AgroPAris Tech, Thiverval-Grignon, France

    Raia-Silva Massad

  2. Env. and Arable Crops Research Unit, INRA, Thiverval-Grignon, France

    Benjamin Loubet

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Theobald, M. et al. (2015). In-Canopy Turbulence—State of the Art and Potential Improvements. In: Massad, RS., Loubet, B. (eds) Review and Integration of Biosphere-Atmosphere Modelling of Reactive Trace Gases and Volatile Aerosols. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7285-3_13

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