Surface renewal is a micrometeorological method that is being used increasingly to determine energy fluxes, but its technical complexity makes it inaccessible to a broad audience. We describe the steps needed to set up and calibrate a surface renewal field station, to acquire and process data, and to correctly interpret results.
McElrone, A. J., Shapland, T. M., Calderon, A., Fitzmaurice, L., Paw U, K. T., Snyder, R. L. Surface Renewal: An Advanced Micrometeorological Method for Measuring and Processing Field-Scale Energy Flux Density Data. J. Vis. Exp. (82), e50666, doi:10.3791/50666 (2013).