Description: | Aircraft landings, departures, and running aircraft on the airport pad
were found to produce large spikes in the half hourly CO2 flux and small spikes in CO2
concentration on many days during the entire deployment of the AMF at NIM. This influence
was found on 40% of the days in March and April 2006 and sometimes for multiple periods in
a day; this was typical of the year of data. The spikes range from only several
micromoles s-1 m-2 to one hundred or more for flux (a typical spike was in the twenties) and
near zero to 1.0 mmoles m-3 for CO2 concentration (typically around 0.15).
The aircraft influence was caused by persistent easterly winds; the airport
terminal pad and the nearest part of the runway were almost directly to the
east of the ECOR location.
Occasionally an influence on water vapor density was detected, but this was fairly rare
and usually of very small magnitude. |