Category: Skill course
Credit points: 0.2 per course day
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Date: October 10-14, 2022
Location: Lecture hall (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) and B0.002 (Wednesday), MPI for Biogeochemistry, Jena
Teacher: Mathias Goeckede, Olaf Kolle, Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow, Jake Nelson
This skill course will cover 4 ½ days, providing an in-depth introduction into theory, instrumentation and data processing skills for the eddy-covariance technique. The course will consist of lectures, hands-on classes with software tools, instrument sessions in the laboratory, and an excursion to the nearby field site at Gebesee.
Target group
This skill course is primarily targeting an internal MPI-BGC audience, i.e. PhD students who are dealing with eddy-covariance data within the context of their projects. The course is in principle also open to external collaborators from national and international research groups, depending on available space. The maximum number of participants is set to 20.
For computer lab exercises, participants are asked to bring their own laptops. In the weeks before the actual course, we will distribute instructions to participants how to prepare their laptops for the coursework, i.e. provide lists of software to be installed, and offer code packages for download.
EddyPro: https://www.licor.com/env/support/EddyPro/software.html
RStudio: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
R 3.6.2: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
R-Packages from CRAN: REddyProc (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/REddyProc/index.html) bigleaf (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigleaf/index.html)
Footprint tool for R by Natascha Kljun: http://footprint.kljun.net/download.php (Please follow the instructions for "Installing EBImage and spatialfil" in the readme.pdf)
In the following you see the preliminary schedule:
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L = lecture, D = demonstration, P = practical, E = excursion, B - break
Day & Time | Type | Content | Who & Where |
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October 10 | Eddy Covariance basics | lecture hall | |
09:15 - 9:30 | L | Introduction to the workshop | Organizing committee |
09:30 - 10:30 | L | The Eddy-Covariance Method: Basics and General Problems I | Mathias Göckede |
10:30 - 10:45 | B | Coffee break | |
10:45 - 11:45 | L | The Eddy-Covariance Method: Basics and General Problems II | Mathias Göckede |
11:45 - 13:00 | B | Lunch break | |
13:00 - 14:30 | P | Eddy-Covariance processing: basic raw data handling, common correction procedures | Tarek El-Madany |
14:30 - 14:45 | B | Coffee break | |
14:45 - 15:30 | P | Software installation and testing on participant’s computers | Organizing committee |
15:30 - 17:00 | P | Hands-on work with software tools I: easy-to-use data examples | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow, Mathias Göckede |
October 11 | Basic data processing | lecture hall | |
09:15 - 9:45 | L | Foot print analysis | Mathias Göckede |
09:45 - 10:30 | L | Flux data quality control | Mathias Göckede |
10:30 - 10:45 | B | Coffee break | |
10:45 - 11:45 | L | EC data processing I: available software tools, detailed introduction into selected software packages | Mark Schlutow |
11:45 - 13:00 | B | Lunch break | |
13:00 - 15:00 | P | Hands-on work with software tools II: easy-to-use data examples (cont.) | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow, Mathias Göckede |
15:00 - 15:15 | B | Coffee break | |
15:15 - 17:00 | P | EC data screening and quality assessment: footprint tools, detailed flux data quality analysis | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow, Mathias Göckede |
October 12 | Data post-processing, troubleshooting | lecture hall | |
09:15 - 10:30 | L, P | Post processing steps: u* filtering, gap-filling, partitioning (theory) | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow |
10:30 - 10:45 | B | Coffee break | |
10:45 - 11:45 | P | Post processing steps: u* filtering, gap-filling, partitioning (theory) | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow |
11:45 - 12:45 | B | Lunch break | |
12:45 - 15:00 | P | Hands-on work with software tools III: u* filtering, gap-filling, partitioning | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow |
15:00 - 15:15 | B | Coffee break | |
15:15 - 17:00 | P | Hands-on work with software tools III: u* filtering, gap-filling, partitioning | Tarek El-Madany, Mark Schlutow |
October 13 | EC instrumentation, excursion | lecture hall | |
09:00 - 10:00 | L | Eddy-Covariance instrumentation: Measurement systems customized for specific conditions (MPI-BGC network) | Olaf Kolle |
10:00 - 10:15 | B | Coffee break | |
10:15 - 12:15 | P | Practical work with instrumentation (cont.): Laboratory setup of EC systems, sensor comparison, data retrieval, etc. | Olaf Kolle, Freiland group |
12:15 - 13:00 | B | Lunch break | |
13:00 - 18:00 | E | Excursion (Gebesee) | Organizing committee |
October 14 | EC data synthesis | lecture hall | |
09:00 - 10:30 | L | Overview of flux networks and introduction to synthesis products | Jake Nelson |
10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break | ||
10:45 - 12:15 | P | Practical work through using FLUXNET | Jake Nelson |
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