Land-Atmosphere Responses to a Total Solar Eclipse in Three Ecosystems With Contrasting Structure and Physiology.

ABSTRACT: Mid-Missouri experienced up to 2 min 40 s of totality at around solar noon during the total eclipse of 2017. We conducted the Mid-Missouri Eclipse Meteorology Experiment to examine land-atmosphere interactions during the eclipse. Here, research examining the eclipse responses in three contrasting ecosystems (forest, prairie, and soybeans) is described. There was variable cloudiness around first and fourth contacts (i.e., the start and end of partial solar obscuration) at the forest and prairie; however, solar irradiance (K _↓) signals during the eclipse were relatively clean. Unfortunately, the eclipse forcing at the soybean field was contaminated by convective activity, which decreased K _↓ beginning about an hour before first contact and exposed the fiel

SUBMITTER: Wood JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505711 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature