Estimating Land Surface Energy Budgets from Space: Review and Current Efforts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and USDA-ARS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-78

  Diak, George R ^a   Mecikalski, John R ^a   Anderson, Martha C ^a   Norman, John M ^b   Kustas, William P ^c   Torn, Ryan D ^d   DeWolf, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; VEGETATION; WATER RESOURCES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ENERGY BALANCE-BOWEN RATIO (EBBR); LATENT HEAT; THERMAL-INFRARED (TIR) WAVELENGTHS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 1442337875     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-1-65     Document Type: Review

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