Meteorological Data
A meteorological tower was installed at the site in the centre of the
wetland and instrumented with meteorological equipment to monitor
environmental conditions from 7 June to 10 September 2018. Measurements
were taken every 10 seconds and averaged half-hourly on a 9210XLite data
Logger (Sutron, Stirling, Virginia, USA). Wind speed was measured by an
R.M. Young 05103 – 10A anemometer (Traverse City, Michigan, USA) at a
height of 3.8m. Net radiation was measured with a net radiometer (NR
Lite, Kipp and Zonen, Delft, Netherlands) and photosynthetically active
radiation was measured by a quantum sensor (Li-Cor 2319, LI-COR, inc.,
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) at 3.1m. Air temperature (Ta)
and relative humidity (RH) were measured with an HMP-155 probe at 3.4m
(Vaisala, Helsinki, Finland). Two soil heat flux plates (HukseFlux
Thermal Sensor HFP01, Delft, Netherlands) were placed under the soil
surface at 5cm depths to measure average ground heat flux. Two ECH2O
EC-5 sensors (Meter Group, Hopkins, Washington, USA) measured the
average soil moisture at a 10cm depth in a soil pit adjacent to the
tower, and soil temperatures (Ts) was measured at 3
depths in the soil pit (2, 5, & 10cm) with Li-Cor 7900-180 soil
temperature probes (LICOR Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska, USA). Rainfall was
measured by a tipping bucket rain gauge (Onset Computer Corp,
Massachusetts, USA) in a forested clearing 350m North of the study site,
at a similar elevation as the wetland. A Moultrie Wingscapes time lapse
camera captured images in three-hour intervals everyday from 6 am to 9
pm from May 25th to September 7th,
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