Estimating annual CO2 flux for Lutjewad Station using three different gap-filling techniques

Dragomir, Carmelia M., Klaassen, Wim, Voiculescu, Mirela, Georgescu, Lucian P. and van der Laan, Sander (2012) Estimating annual CO2 flux for Lutjewad Station using three different gap-filling techniques. The Scientific World Journal, 2012. ISSN 1537-744X

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Abstract

Long-term measurements of CO2 flux can be obtained using the eddy covariance technique, but these datasets are affected by gaps which hinder the estimation of robust long-term means and annual ecosystem exchanges. We compare results obtained using three gap-fill techniques: multiple regression (MR), multiple imputation (MI), and artificial neural networks (ANNs), applied to a one-year dataset of hourly CO2 flux measurements collected in Lutjewad, over a flat agriculture area near the Wadden Sea dike in the north of the Netherlands. The dataset was separated in two subsets: a learning and a validation set. The performances of gap-filling techniques were analysed by calculating statistical criteria: coefficient of determination (R-2), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), maximum absolute error (MaxAE), and mean square bias (MSB). The gap-fill accuracy is seasonally dependent, with better results in cold seasons. The highest accuracy is obtained using ANN technique which is also less sensitive to environmental/seasonal conditions. We argue that filling gaps directly on measured CO2 fluxes is more advantageous than the common method of filling gaps on calculated net ecosystem change, because ANN is an empirical method and smaller scatter is expected when gap filling is applied directly to measurements.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright © 2012 Carmelia M. Dragomir et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	net ecosystem exchange,eddy covariance measurements,artificial neural-network,carbon-dioxide,water-vapor,multiple imputation,quality assessment,forest,uncertainty,models
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2015 17:00
Last Modified:	25 Jan 2024 01:27
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55729
DOI:	10.1100/2012/842893

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