Interactive comment on “ Measuring frequently during peak soil N 2 O emissions is more important than choosing the time of day to sample ” by Jordi T .

The authors present observations of N2O emissions from an agricultural research station in Wisconsin over three different seasons at high temporal resolution using a Los Gatos N2O analyzer and automatic chambers in an effort to understand diurnal variability of N2O emissions and whether certain times of day are representative of daily emissions. Emissions were measured from three different plots: in one from April through Oct 2015, one from September 2016 to July 2017, and one from September 2017 through August 2018. They integrate daily fluxes based on a minimum of 11 observations, and then rank the daily fluxes from largest to smallest. They bin these ranked daily observations based on size into 4 or 5 largely overlapping bins: observations amounting to 25% (or possibly 30%) of annual fluxes, observations amounting