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quantity. Information about it is crucial for the derivation of models of air-surface interaction which in turn is needed for larger scale climate models. Sensible heat flux varies greatly across short distances and thus many sensors are required in order to obtain measurements of sufficient spatial density. The standard measurement method however requires expensive equipment which prohibits the deployment of a large number of sensors. Our work implements a method relying only on the variance of the measured temperature to compute the sensible heat flux. We first verify the validity of this method and then modify a commercially available SensorScope station to capture the required data. The resulting setup is able to provide sensible heat flux measurements with high spatial density in near real time at negligible additional cost.warning.pngString representation Sensible heat flux is an essential meteoro […] r real time at negligible additional cost. is too long.