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Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm

Qiaozhen Mu, +2 more
- 15 Aug 2011 - 
- Vol. 115, Iss: 8, pp 1781-1800
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In this article, an improved version of the global evapotranspiration (ET) algorithm based on MODIS and global meteorology data has been proposed, which simplifies the calculation of vegetation cover fraction, calculating ET as the sum of daytime and nighttime components, adding soil heat flux calculation, improving estimates of stomatal conductance, aerodynamic resistance and boundary layer resistance, separating dry canopy surface from the wet and dividing soil surface into saturated wet surface and moist surface.
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This article is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.The article was published on 2011-08-15. It has received 2052 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evapotranspiration & Meteorological reanalysis.

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Variability in evaporation across the Canadian Prairie region during drought and non-drought periods

TL;DR: In this article, the cold regions hydrological model (CRHM) is applied to calculate estimates of actual evaporation at point locations which had sufficient hourly measurements, which can be applied to constrain land surface parameterization schemes.
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Improving Budyko curve‐based estimates of long‐term water partitioning using hydrologic signatures from GRACE

TL;DR: In this article, a group of linear models embodying two alternate hypotheses that departures can be predicted by Taylor series expansion based on the deviation of physical characteristics (seasonality, snow fraction, and vegetation index) from reference conditions and surrogate indicators covarying with E, e.g., A/P, were fitted using a mesoscale USA data set (HUC4) and then evaluated using world data sets and USA basins 1000 km2 and, according to comparison with other global data sets, with GRACE error as estimates of uncertainty.
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Measurement and Partitioning of Evapotranspiration for Application to Vadose Zone Studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss advances in partitioning the energy balance between canopy and soil using remote sensing and conclude that the flux variance partitioning with raw eddy covariance data and the two-source energy balance approaches with remote sensing platforms may have the greatest potential for partitioning evapotranspiration, in part because large public repositories of eddy coefficients and satellite data could be readily reprocessed to partition ET.
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Trophic interactions among vertebrate guilds and plants shape global patterns in species diversity.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, after accounting for environmental drivers, large-scale species richness patterns in plant and vertebrate taxa consistently support trophic interactions playing a major role in shaping global patterns in biodiversity, and suggested that top-down forces often play strong complementary roles relative to bottom-up drivers in structuring biodiversity patterns across trophIC levels.
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Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: A water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change [White paper]

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first conceptualization of "environmental livelihood security" which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods, addressing the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security), not only responding to literature gaps but also addressing emerging dialogue from existing nexus consortia.
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