MODIS-driven estimation of terrestrial latent heat flux in China based on a modified Priestley-Taylor algorithm

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 171-172, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-202

  Yao, Yunjun ^a,b   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b,c   Cheng, Jie ^a,b   Liu, Shaomin ^b   Fisher, Joshua B ^d   Zhang, Xudong ^e   Jia, Kun ^a,b   Zhao, Xiang ^a,b   Qin, Qiming ^f   Zhao, Bin ^g   Han, Shijie ^h   Zhou, Guangsheng ⁱ   Zhou, Guoyi ^j   Li, Yuelin ^j   Zhao, Shaohua ^k  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^j SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^k NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

China; Evapotranspiration; Latent heat flux; MODIS; Priestley Taylor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODIS; NDVI; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84874249456     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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