Surface fluxes
On the predictability of land surface fluxes from meteorological variables
... land surface models (LSMs) are performing poorly when compared with relatively simple empirical models over a wide range of met- rics and ...land surface fluxes that LSMs are not fully ...land ...
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Estimating surface fluxes over the north Tibetan Plateau area with ASTER imagery
... The intensive observation period (IOP) and long-term obser- vation of the CAMP/Tibet have been done successfully in the past seven years. A large amount of data has been collected, which is the best data set so far for ...
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Spatial and temporal patterns of land surface fluxes from remotely sensed surface temperatures within an uncertainty modelling framework
... land surface temperatures, derived from NOAA-AVHRR imagery and a generalised split-window al- gorithm, are used as a calibration variable in a simple land surface scheme (TOPUP) and combined within the ...
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Estimating surface fluxes over middle and upper streams of the Heihe River Basin with ASTER imagery
... land surface is very moist. All of these factors lead to a large surface latent heat ...land surface observations were made led to considerable ...land surface observation for latent heat flux ...
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How representative are FLUXNET measurements of surface fluxes during temperature extremes?
... the fluxes of sensible heat, latent heat and net ecosystem exchange respond and contribute to these changes is ...heat fluxes are generally lower ...heat fluxes, mostly over the United States, Europe ...
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Seasonal Variations of the Surface Fluxes and Surface Parameters over the Loess Plateau in China
... not much. During the remaining days of July, through August, and until the end of September, rainfall events occurred very frequently, many of which had quite promi- nent precipitation. The maximum precipitation occurred ...
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A critical assessment of the JULES land surface model hydrology for humid tropical environments
... land surface models (LSMs) such as the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) are origi- nally developed to provide surface boundary conditions for climate ...hydrological fluxes at the relevant ...
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Impacts of grid resolution on surface energy fluxes simulated with an integrated surface groundwater flow model
... integrated surface-groundwater flow, was used to investi- gate the grid resolution dependence of simulated soil mois- ture, soil temperature, and surface energy fluxes over a sub- catchment of the ...
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Effects of high spatial and temporal resolution Earth observations on simulated hydrometeorological variables in a cropland (southwestern France)
... The study area is a pilot site in southwestern France (De- joux et al., 2012). It is considered to be representative of the cultivated area in the upper Garonne River basin. A fraction (estimated at 13 %) of crop fields ...
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The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes
... heat fluxes have been obtained over small-scale horizontal homogeneous surfaces (Jackson et ...on surface temperature measurements in combination with spatially constant surface meteorological ...
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A numerical model study of the stratocumulus topped marine boundary layer
... 'observed' surface fluxes are used to force the model interior as the coefficients AA2 reduce to the surface forcing for each variable (equation ...model surface forcing is not restricted to ...
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Importance of the variability of hydrographic preconditioning for deep convection in the Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean
... winter surface fluxes support the description of convection as a process that transfers the heat and salt contents from the top and intermediate layers to the deep ...the surface fluxes and on ...
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Assessment of actual evapotranspiration over a semiarid heterogeneous land surface by means of coupled low resolution remote sensing data with an energy balance model: comparison to extra large aperture scintillometer measurements
... heat fluxes (eddy covariance for example) only provide point measurements with a foot- print considerably smaller than a satellite ...averaged fluxes over heterogeneous land surfaces (Brunsell et ...the ...
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Turbulent flux modelling with a simple 2 layer soil model and extrapolated surface temperature applied at Nam Co Lake basin on the Tibetan Plateau
... A different way of looking at the model performance is cross correlation of the modelled surface fluxes against EC mea- surements and SEWAB (Fig. 8). These measures give an insight into the reasons for the ...
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The Two layer Surface Energy Balance Parameterization Scheme (TSEBPS) for estimation of land surface heat fluxes
... Generally, surface evapotranspiration ...of surface energy bal- ance ...the surface net radia- tion and the soil heat flux (hence available energy) from com- bined visible, near infrared and thermal ...
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Modeling of the circulation in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea with the Princeton Ocean Model
... major surface currents flowing along slope, can be affected by instability processes that sometimes lead to the generation of turbulent phenom- ena such as mesoscale eddies, which can induce relatively intense ...
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Climate of the Greenland ice sheet using a high-resolution climate model – Part 2: Near-surface climate and energy balance
... concave surface and a synoptic pressure gradient favourable for advection of cold air keep the air cold, further enhancing the katabatic ...near surface climate and the surface energy balance over ...
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PALM-USM v1.0: A new urban surface model integrated into the PALM large-eddy simulation model
... the surface, large-scale forcing, and land-surface interactions with the ...each surface ele- ment and the first grid level adjacent to the respective surface in order to account for friction ...
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Removal of BTX Compounds from Wastewaters Using Template Free MFI Zeolitic Membrane
... The SEM images of the membrane surfaces indicate that the better zeolite membrane intergrowth can be achieved from smaller seeds and the resultant membrane posses a smoother surface. In the other hand, the ...
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Fluxes of Gaseous Elemental Mercury at a Mediterranean Coastal Grassland
... GEM fluxes based on the aerodynamic gradient method. The observed GEM fluxes were enlarged and positive during daytime, while during nighttime GEM fluxes were smaller and towards the surface ...
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