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Understanding the diurnal cycle of land–atmosphere interactions from flux site observations
Eunkyo Seo
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University,
Fairfax, 22030, United States
Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National
University, Busan, 48513, Republic of Korea
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University,
Fairfax, 22030, United States
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Short summary
This study presents the climatology of the observed land–atmosphere interactions on a subdaily timescale during the warm season from flux site observations. Multivariate metrics are employed to examine the land, atmosphere, and combined couplings, and a mixing diagram is adopted to understand the coevolution of the moist and thermal energy budget within the atmospheric mixed layer. The diurnal cycles of both mixing diagrams and hourly land–atmosphere couplings exhibit hysteresis.
This study presents the climatology of the observed land–atmosphere interactions on a subdaily...
