The residual of the energy balance closure and its influence on the results of three SVAT models

Results Of A Panel Discussion About The Energy Balance Closure Correction For Trace Gases

“…Often such models appear to be in good agreement with the experimental data, but they attribute the energy budget residual to the ground heat flux or storage (Kracher et al 2009). This results in a ground heat flux/storage term that becomes too high that a coupling with a soil model is difficult.…”

Surface energy balance and turbulence network during the Convective and Orographically‐induced Precipitation Study (COPS)

“…As the energy balance is, by definition, closed in most of the applied models, the residuum has to be considered when comparing modelled and measured flux values (e.g. Kracher et al, 2009). As a first guess it is a common procedure to distribute the residuum according to the Bowen ratio (Twine et al, 2000).…”

Turbulent flux observations and modelling over a shallow lake and a wet grassland in the Nam Co basin, Tibetan Plateau

“…The energy balance closure correction (EBC) for the land surface fluxes was calculated after Twine et al (2000), distributing the residual of the energy balance according to the Bowen ratio to the latent and We subsequently refer to this correction as EBC-Bo. Since Kracher et al (2009) show with another data set that the land surface model SEWAB, which is used in this study (see Section 2.3.1), roughly preserves the Bowen ratio measured by eddy covariance, we regard EBC-Bo as a suitable correction for comparing the observations with SEWAB. Nevertheless, recent studies suggest that a predominant fraction of the residual should be attributed to the sensible heat flux Ingwersen et al 2011;Foken et al 2012).…”