A 24-hour radiation budget at a high-grass marsh in early winter

Abstract

As with others of the numerous physical factors forming the nonliving environment of terrestrial ecosystems, the upward and downward exchanges of the fluxes of solar (short-wave) and terrestrial (long-wave) radiation often appear in the literature as yearly, seasonal, or monthly averages. Because these tend to present a misleading or incomplete picture of environmental conditions, a 24-hour series of measurements is presented here. A series of radiation measurements was taken to determine the radiation budget at a high-grass marsh in early winter.