Figure 1.

Reproduction of analysis presented in Figs. 2a, 3C, and Q in Holmes et al.¹⁰. (a) Sensible heat (H) vs. $\mathrm{\Delta }T=T_{\mathit{seq}}-T_a$ based on the short equation [$T_{\mathit{seq}}$, Eq. (10)]; (b) H vs. $\mathrm{\Delta }T$ based on the long equation ($T_{\mathit{leq}}$, Eq. 6). Both show data for August 2005 at Brookings. Blue crosses represent data points satisfying the filtering criteria, while black dots represent points not considered in the analysis. N is the number of blue crosses used for regression (red line), m is the slope of regression, RMSE is the root mean square error and R${}^2$ is the square of the coefficient of determination. The fitted $\epsilon$ value is reported in the title. (c) Optimised $\epsilon$ values at Brookings obtained for the months where ${\text{R}}^2>0.5$ using the short equation (Eq. 9, black dots) and long equation (Eq. 6, blue stars), and $\epsilon$ obtained using the approach of Maes et al.¹¹ (red stars). (d) Same as (c), but for Yatir Forest, see Table 2 for site descriptions.