Dynamics of the superficial fluxes over a flooded rice paddy in southern Brazil

In Southern Brazil, rice paddies are an important agribusiness occurring in lowlands, where the growing season occurs in the summer and the area remains without use in the rest of the year. We estimated the surface fluxes (carbon dioxide (CO2), Latent (LE) and Sensible (H) heat fluxes) over a flooded rice paddy in Southern Brazil for a five-year period using the eddy covariance methodology. LE was higher than H, with mean values of the Bowen...