An improved land surface emissivity parameter for land surface models using global remote sensing observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2867-2881

  Jin, Menglin ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROUND TEMPERATURE; LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY; LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 31344477487     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3720.1     Document Type: Article

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