Journal
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 102, Issue 2, Pages E323-E337Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0341.1
Keywords
Atmosphere-land interaction; Carbon cycle; Energy budget; balance; Radiative fluxes; Remote sensing; Satellite observations
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Funding
- Chinese Grand Research Program on Climate Change and Response [2016YFA0600103]
- National Earth System Science Data Center, National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China
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The GLASS product suite consists of 12 high-quality and accurate land surface products, which have characteristics of long-term temporal coverage, high spatial resolution, and spatial continuity. These products are based on robust algorithms and extensive validation, and are widely used in climate research field.
The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) product suite currently contains 12 products, including leaf area index, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, fraction of green vegetation coverage, gross primary production, broadband albedo, broadband longwave emissivity, downward shortwave radiation and photosynthetically active radiation, land surface temperature, downward and upwelling thermal radiation, all-wave net radiation, and evapotranspiration. These products are generated from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer satellite data. Their unique features include long-term temporal coverage (many from 1981 to the present), high spatial resolutions of the surface radiation products (1 km and 0.05 degrees), spatial continuities without missing pixels, and high quality and accuracy based on extensive validation using in situ measurements and intercomparisons with other existing satellite products. Moreover, the GLASS products are based on robust algorithms that have been published in peer-reviewed literature. Herein, we provide an overview of the algorithm development, product characteristics, and some preliminary applications of these products. We also describe the next steps, such as improving the existing GLASS products, generating more climate data records (CDRs), broadening product dissemination, and fostering their wider utilization. The GLASS products are freely available to the public.
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