Uncertainty analysis for satellite derived sensible heat fluxes and scintillometer measurements over Savannah environment and comparison to mesoscale meteorological simulation results

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 656-667

  Marx, A ^a   Kunstmann, H ^a   Schuttemeyer D ^b   Moene, A F ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

MM5; Remote sensing; Savannah environment; Scintillometer; Sensible heat flux; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SAVANNA; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; GHANA; NORTHERN REGION [GHANA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TAMALE; WEST AFRICA;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 41049098805     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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