Sources of discrepancies between satellite-derived and land surface model estimates of latent heat fluxes

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2325-2341

  Lipton, Alan E ^a   Liang, Pan ^a   Jiménez, Carlos ^b   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Aires, Filipe ^b   Prigent, Catherine ^b,c   Lynch, Richard ^a   Galantowicz, John F ^a   D’Entremont, Robert P ^a   Uymin, Gennady ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Estellus ^*  (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; DATA SET; EMISSIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NEAR INFRARED; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 84927635074     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022641     Document Type: Article

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