Estimation of hourly land surface heat fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau by the combined use of geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites

Zhong, Lei; Ma, Yaoming; Hu, Zeyong; Fu, Yunfei; Hu, Yuanyuan; Wang, Xian; Cheng, Meilin; Ge, Nan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5529-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5529-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5529-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 8

Research article

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26 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 26 Apr 2019

Estimation of hourly land surface heat fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau by the combined use of geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites

Lei Zhong, Yaoming Ma, Zeyong Hu, Yunfei Fu, Yuanyuan Hu, Xian Wang, Meilin Cheng, and Nan Ge

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5529-2019-supplement

Data sets

The basic database of atmospheric boundary layer over the northern Tibetan Plateau Z. Hu https://doi.org/10.11888/AtmosphericPhysics.tpe.43.file

FY-2C data National Satellite Meteorological Center http://satellite.nsmc.org.cn/portalsite/Data/DataView.aspx

SPOT Vegetation N. V. Vito https://www.vito-eodata.be/PDF/portal/Application.html#Home

China meteorological forcing dataset K. Yang http://dam.itpcas.ac.cn/chs/rs/?q=data

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Fine-temporal-resolution turbulent heat fluxes at the plateau scale have significant importance for studying diurnal variation characteristics of atmospheric boundary and weather systems in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its surroundings. Time series of land surface heat fluxes with high temporal resolution over the entire TP were derived. The derived surface heat fluxes proved to be in good agreement with in situ measurements and were superior to GLDAS flux products.