12. Glossary¶

AmeriFlux: The AmeriFlux network is a community of sites and scientists measuring ecosystem carbon, water, and energy fluxes across the Americas, and committed to producing and sharing high quality eddy covariance data.
EC: Eddy Covariance - a technique to measure turbulent heat, mass (e.g. water, \(CO_2\)) and momentum fluxes.
ERA5: Reanalysis data
Fetch: Area influencing a sensor. For EC the area is upwind of the sensor.
Fortran: A computer programming language
Jupyter Notebook: A tool to help organize a project with progamming involved. An introduction is given here Jupyter Notebooks: setting up your research-oriented coding environment
LAI: Leaf Area Index
Obukhov Length (\(L\)): A parameter with dimension of length that gives a relation between parameters characterizing dynamic, thermal, and buoyant processes. More detailed explanation refers to AMS wiki.
OHM: Objective Hysteresis Model. Example coeffcients are given here
Python: A computer programming language
SEB: Surface energy balance. An urban definition
SUEWS: Surface [Urban] Energy and Water Balance Scheme Manual
SuPy: SUEWS that speaks Python Manual
UMEP: Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor Manual

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