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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-123-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-123-2022
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24 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2022

Characteristics of intrinsic non-stationarity and its effect on eddy-covariance measurements of CO2 fluxes

Lei Liu, Yu Shi, and Fei Hu

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We find a new kind of non-stationarity. This new kind of non-stationarity is caused by the intrinsic randomness. Results show that the new kind of non-stationarity is widespread in small-scale variations of CO2 turbulent fluxes. This finding reminds us that we need to handle the short-term averaged turbulent fluxes carefully, and we also need to re-screen the existing non-stationarity diagnosis methods because they could make a wrong diagnosis due to this new kind of non-stationarity.