Systematic errors in ground heat flux estimation and their correction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gentine, P ^a   Entekhabi, D ^b   Heusinkveld, B ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; CALORIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; CALORIMETRIC METHODS; CONTINUUM MODEL; CORRECTION METHODOLOGY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HEAT FLUX ESTIMATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; RADIATION FORCING; SOIL HEAT FLUX; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL SURFACES; SURFACE SOIL; SURFACE SOIL LAYERS; TEMPERATURE PROBES; TIME-SCALES;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CALORIMETRY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT STORAGE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

HEAT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84866992447     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010203     Document Type: Article

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