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Fig. 6. Comparison of latent energy flux maps derived by tower-independent method (integral scale similarity approach, ISSA) and tower-lidar method (micrometeorological integrated similarity approach, MISA) compiled from data acquired at the Soil Moisture Experiment on 1 July 2002 at 1045 h. The dotted lines on the flux maps show the location of the fence line separating the corn from the soybean. Also shown in the figure are histograms of the spatial distribution of the fluxes from the corn and soybean flux maps, and the latent energy (LE) flux measured by eddy covariance instruments mounted on 3-m towers in the corn and soybean fields. The two eddy covariance points on each histogram refer to the LE flux and the closure-corrected flux (LECC). The uncertainty bars on the eddy covariance measurements are ±10%.
