Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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Evaluation of New Models of Net Radiometers.

Bruce Bugbee1, James Mark Blonquist Jr.2, Bertrand Tanner3, and Scott Jones1. (1) Utah State University, Plants Soils & Climate Dept., Logan, UT 84322-4820, (2) Apogee Instruments, 721 W 1800 N, Logan, UT 84321, (3) Campbell Scientific, Inc, Campbell Scientific Inc., 815 West 1800 North, Logan, UT 84321

Two new net radiometer models have been released in the past year. We evaluated these models compared to several, state-of-the-art older models, as well as less expensive models. Our findings generally indicate that accuracy increases with increasing cost of the radiometer.