Structure: 5 full course days, plus 2 days travel to and from UMBS. AM and PM sessions as 1) lectures; and 2) hands-on segments (labs/ exercises/ instruments/ data analysis).

Tuition: $1200, incl. lodging (6 nights) and dining at UMBS.

A technical short course in the use of micrometeorological methods to obtain and analyze fluxes of momentum, heat, and chemical species by eddy-covariance, eddy accumulation and related techniques. Supported by NSF-IGERT.

TARGET DATE FOR REGISTRATION: May 19, 2006http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart

A. Theory of turbulent exchange measurements: Boundary layers; turbulence statistics; TKE / stability; similarity; WPL “correction”, energy balance closure.

B. Flux measurement techniques: eddy-covariance (EC), disjunct EC (DEC), relaxed and disjunct eddy accumulation (REA, DEA). Open-path and closed-path systems. Constraints of available VOC analytical techniques. Choice of flux technique. Site selection.

C. Install and operate an EC and energy balance measurement site, collect and analyze its data. Data logger and analysis programming for flux and energy balance applications.

D. QA/QC: uncertainty and systematic errors; spectral response and spectral windowing; gap-filling issues and techniques.

Questions? BART Program Office, 1-888-647-0536, bartumbs@umich.edu, or Dr. Mary Anne Carroll, 734-763-4066, mcarroll@umich.edu

Instructors: HaPe Schmid (Indiana University), Brian Lamb (Washington State University), Alex Guenther (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Short-Course: Flux Measurement Fundamentals

Key Course Components

July 9-15, 2006Graduate Students, Postdocs, ScientistsConducted at the University of Michigan Biological Station