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10.5194/acpd-10-14387-2010

Components of near-surface energy balance derived from satellite soundings – Part 1: Net available energy

Jarvis

¹ Mallick

¹ Wohlfahrt

² Gough

³ Hirano

⁴ Kiely

⁵ Miyata

⁶ Yamamoto

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Atmospheric Sciences, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, UK

Ecosystem Research and Landscape Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria

Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2012, USA

Division of Environmental Resources, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Hydrometeorology Research Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland

National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University Tsushimanaka 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

09 06 2010

10 6 14387 14415

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This paper introduces a method for recovering global fields of near-surface net available energy (the sum of the sensible and latent heat flux or the difference between the net radiation and surface heat accumulation) using satellite visible and infra-red products derived from the AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) and MODIS (MOderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) platforms. The method focuses on first specifying net surface radiation by considering its various shortwave and longwave components. This was then used in a surface energy balance equation in conjunction with satellite day-night surface temperature difference to derive 12 h discrete time estimates of surface system heat capacity and heat accumulation, leading directly to a retrieval for surface net available energy. Both net radiation and net available energy estimates were evaluated against ground truth data taken from 30 terrestrial tower sites affiliated to the FLUXNET network covering 7 different biome classes. This revealed a relatively good agreement between the satellite and tower data, with a pooled root mean square deviation of 98 and 72 W m<sup>−2</sup> for net radiation and net available energy, respectively, with little bias particularly for the net available energy.

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