A tethered-balloon PTRMS sampling approach for surveying of landscape-scale biogenic VOC fluxes

Landscape-scale fluxes of biogenic gases were surveyed by deploying a 100 m Teflon tube attached to a tethered balloon as a sampling inlet for a fast-response proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometer (PTRMS). Along with meteorological instruments deployed on the tethered balloon and a 3 m tripod and outputs from a regional weather model, these observations were used to estimate landscape-scale biogenic volatile organic compound fluxes with two micrometeorological techniques: mixed layer variance and surface layer gradients. This highly mobile sampling system was deployed at four field sites near Barcelona to estimate landscape-scale biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emission factors in a relatively short period (3 weeks).

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Author Greenberg, James
Peñuelas, J.
Guenther, Alex B. ORCID icon
Seco, Roger
Turnipseed, Andrew A.
Jiang, Xiaoyan
Filella, I.
Estiarte, M.
Sardans, J.
Ogaya, R.
Llusia, J.
Rapparini, F.
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Suggested Citation Greenberg, James, Peñuelas, J., Guenther, Alex B., Seco, Roger, Turnipseed, Andrew A., Jiang, Xiaoyan, Filella, I., Estiarte, M., Sardans, J., Ogaya, R., Llusia, J., Rapparini, F.. (2014). A tethered-balloon PTRMS sampling approach for surveying of landscape-scale biogenic VOC fluxes. UCAR/NCAR - Library. https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7542pj8. Accessed 27 January 2026.

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