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HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
Volume 16, Issue 15, Pages 2963-2971Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1079
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regional distributions; land surface variables; NDVI and vegetation coverage; net radiation flux and soil heat flux; remote sensing; Tibetan Plateau
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This paper explores the potential for documenting regional fields of surface energy fluxes over the Tibetan plateau using published algorithms and previously calibrated empirical formulae with data from NOAA-14 AVHRR and atmospheric data collected during the GAME-Tibet field experiment. Comparison with observations at three field sites suggests errors in the resulting estimates are less than 10% in the clear sky conditions necessary for application of this approach. Because of the need for clear skies, it was only possible to calculate the desired regional fields for one satellite scene during the 5 month study period. Maps of surface energy fluxes, and frequency analyses of these maps, are presented for this scene. The need for an alternative, more consistently applicable, satellite-based method to map surface energy fields is highlighted. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
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