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Instruments, ranging from gas exchange system to flux systems,  are in place at the Virginia Forest site to investigate gas emissions from inidividual foligae elements and define energy, mass, and momentum exchange between the local forest and overlying atmosphere or viceversa.

Radiation Instruments
    UV Pyranometres

    Quantum sensors

    Pyranomenters
    Pyrgeormeters
    Pyrradiometer

Meteorological sensors
    Propeller and cup anemometers

   
Platinum resistance thermometers
    Humidity probes (Hygristors)
    Soil thermometers

Radiation Instruments
    UV Pyranometres

    Quantum sensors

    Pyranomenters
    Pyrgeormeters
    Pyrradiometer

Data Acquisition Systems
    Data loggers (CSI 21X, 23X, CR7, CR10X)
    National Instruments multiplexers

    Laptop computers

Gas Exchange Systems
    Water and carbon dioxide (LI-6400)

    Hydrocarbons (see Fuentes & Gillespie 1992)
    Steady-State Porometers (LI-1600)

Eddy Flux Systems
    Sonic anemometers (CSAT3, Gill sonics)
    Carbon dioxide fluxes
    Water vapor fluxes
    Ozone
    Hydrocarbons (isoprene, monoterpenes)

Gas Analyzers and aerosol probes
    Water vapor and carbon dioxide
    Ozone
    Nitric oxide and nitogen dioxide
    Hydrocarbons (gas chromatographs)

    Sesquiterpenes (mass selective detectors)
    Particle size and chemistry

Tethered sonde system and SODAR
    Tethered baloon (30 m3) and winch
    Tethered sonde (temperature, humidity sensors)
    Acoustic sounding (300-m probing capability)

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  Last Update : SUN, 26 DEC 2004 Contact: Jose D Fuentes   
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Clark Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903, Phone: (434) 982-2654