Research Article

A Comparison of Three Gap Filling Techniques for Eddy Covariance Net Carbon Fluxes in Short Vegetation Ecosystems

Table 4

Mean bias error of half-hourly and standard deviation from the mean(a).

Flux site Gap %Day timeNight time ( corrected)
MDVLUTNLRMDVLUTNLR
mgCO2 m−2 s−1 mgCO2 m−2 s−1

Marsh site35763−2.51 (79.04)−0.75 (88.05)−4.36 (73.46)na(c)nanana
4512203.42 (73.26)−0.14 (78.84)0.66 (69.65)1612.21 (47.18)1.19 (34.85)0.73 (35.65)
5516774.27 (78.65)3.09 (90.18)2.00 (78.88)359−1.26 (47.56)2.19 (35.97)2.16 (36.46)
6521361.66 (84.39)−0.78 (90.66)−3.32 (74.42)5324.14 (51.87)4.95 (41.49)5.49 (41.24)

Rice site351084−0.10 (144.58)−4.59 (154.58)−7.17 (123.62)1753.89 (53.96)2.52 (47.19)2.16 (46.24)
451565−0.17 (152.18)1.79 (165.22)3.5 (124.08)3663.56 (54.27)−2.04 (48.94)1.60 (42.13)
552045−1.14 (145.34)−2.69 (168.33)−5.33 (126.43)564−5.22 (58.38)−1.27 (48.69)0.55 (40.58)
6525252.76 (149.03)9.68 (160.66)11.25 (123.96)797−0.59 (57.99)1.11 (48.94)0.06 (41.25)

Soybean site35964−2.17 (115.52)1.64 (134.87)−6.9 (114.04)136−21.8 (93.51)−9.42 (44.1)−8.8 (33.09)
451445−1.88 (114.98)1.81 (136.21)−2.27 (113.32)3451.91 (74.24)4.96 (46.71)3.57 (44.11)
551929−5.21 (112.73)−3.2 (132.46)−9.41 (110.09)5691.72 (69.91)0.19 (45.55)1.19 (41.73)
652411−1.7 (112.09)−2.05 (134.55)−10.97 (109.28)732−3.26 (74.96)0.30 (47.45)−2.59 (41.61)

Values in parentheses are standard deviation.
(b)Number of the artificial gaps.
(c)No measurements were available due to large gaps.