An experiment was conducted in a pine forest in southwestern France during late spring 1992. The aim was fourfold: testing various flux measurement methodologies for chemically reactive species; quantifying the exchanges between the forest and the atmosphere; analyzing the involved mechanisms; and studying their influence on the chemistry of the surface boundary layer. This paper presents preliminary results obtained on the dry deposition of ozone and submicronic aerosol particles, measured using eddy correlation. Once properly normalized, the spectra and cospectra of all scalar species exhibit universal shapes over the whole frequency range. However, evidence is provided that under some meteorological conditions the time series of turbulent variables can be affected by nonstationary trends, or low‐frequency fluctuations that do not contribute to vertical transfer but whose presence can induce large errors in the calculated fluxes. The time variations of the deposition velocities for ozone and aerosol particles are then presented over 2 days with different meteorological conditions. The deposition velocities are shown to be consistent with other reported studies. Dry deposition of ozone appears to be mainly governed by the stomatal resistance, whereas friction velocity and atmospheric instability in the boundary layer seem to govern the deposition of aerosol particles.
Measurements of dry deposition velocities for ozone and aerosol particles has been measured over a pine forest in the south-west of France by the eddy correlation method. Low frequency fluctuations in the variations of scalars can introduce erroneous values of vertical fluxes for ozone and aerosol particles but also, in some cases of low wind, for momentum and heat. The dry deposition velocity variations are similar for ozone and aerosol, although the mechanism of deposition are different. In the case of aerosol particles a parametrization, not far from that of Wesely et al. (1985) can be given.
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