Technical note: Uncertainties in eddy covariance CO2fluxes in a semiarid sagebrush ecosystem caused by gap-filling approaches

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Gap-filling eddy covariance CO2 fluxes is challenging at dryland sites due to small CO2 fluxes. Here, four machine learning (ML) algorithms including artificial neural network (ANN), k-nearest neighbors (KNNs), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM) are employed and evaluated for gap-filling CO2 fluxes over a semiarid sagebrush ecosystem with different lengths of artificial gaps. The ANN and RF algorithms outperform the KNN and SVM in filling gaps ranging from hours to days, with the RF being more time efficient than the ANN. Performances of the ANN and RF are largely degraded for extremely long gaps of 2 months. In addition, our results suggest that there is no need to fill the daytime and nighttime net ecosystem exchange (NEE) gaps separately when using the ANN and RF. With the ANN and RF, the gap-filling-induced uncertainties in the annual NEE at this site are estimated to be within 16gCm-2, whereas the uncertainties by the KNN and SVM can be as large as 27gCm-2. To better fill extremely long gaps of a few months, we test a two-layer gap-filling framework based on the RF. With this framework, the model performance is improved significantly, especially for the nighttime data. Therefore, this approach provides an alternative in filling extremely long gaps to characterize annual carbon budgets and interannual variability in dryland ecosystems.

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Yao, J., Gao, Z., Huang, J., Liu, H., & Wang, G. (2021). Technical note: Uncertainties in eddy covariance CO2fluxes in a semiarid sagebrush ecosystem caused by gap-filling approaches. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(20), 15589–15603. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15589-2021

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