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Simplified Priestley-Taylor Model to Estimate Land-Surface Latent Heat of Evapotranspiration from Incident Shortwave Radiation, Satellite Vegetation Index, and Air Relative Humidity

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13050902

Keywords

SPT model; GLASS product; NDVI; terrestrial latent heat flux; eddy covariance

Funding

  1. National Key Research Development Program of China [2016YFA0600103, 2016YFB0501404, 2016YFA0600102]
  2. Natural Science Fund of China [41671331, 41701483]

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An operational and accurate model for estimating terrestrial latent heat of evapotranspiration (ET) across different land-cover types was developed and evaluated using ground-measured ET data collected from global FLUXNET eddy covariance (EC) sites. The results showed that the model performed reasonably well in estimating seasonal and spatial ET variability.
An operational and accurate model for estimating global or regional terrestrial latent heat of evapotranspiration (ET) across different land-cover types from satellite data is crucial. Here, a simplified Priestley-Taylor (SPT) model was developed without surface net radiation (Rn) by combining incident shortwave radiation (Rs), satellite vegetation index, and air relative humidity (RH). Ground-measured ET for 2000-2009 collected by 100 global FLUXNET eddy covariance (EC) sites was used to calibrate and evaluate the SPT model. A series of cross-validations demonstrated the reasonable performance of the SPT model to estimate seasonal and spatial ET variability. The coefficients of determination (R-2) of the estimated versus observed daily (monthly) ET ranged from 0.42 (0.58) (p < 0.01) at shrubland (SHR) flux sites to 0.81 (0.86) (p < 0.01) at evergreen broadleaf forest (EBF) flux sites. The SPT model was applied to estimate agricultural ET at high spatial resolution (16 m) from Chinese Gaofen (GF)-1 data and monitor long-term (1982-2018) ET variations in the Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR) of mainland China using the Global LAnd-Surface Satellite (GLASS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) product. The proposed SPT model without Rn provides an alternative model for estimating regional terrestrial ET across different land-cover types.

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