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Improvements to a MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration algorithm
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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.About:
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.read more
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Changes in the Shadow: The Shifting Role of Shaded Leaves in Global Carbon and Water Cycles Under Climate Change
TL;DR: He et al. as mentioned in this paper found that globally shaded leaves contribute to more than half of the total increase in gross primary production (GPP; 7.6nPg C) for 1982-2016.
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Surface Evaporative Capacitance: How Soil Type and Rainfall Characteristics Affect Global-Scale Surface Evaporation
Dani Or,Peter Lehmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a direct method for estimating surface evaporation from soil properties considering regional rainfall characteristics and accounting for internal drainage dynamics, where a site-specific evaporative capacitor is periodically recharged by rainfall and discharges at rates determined by interplay between internal drainage and surface evapsoration.
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A methodology for evaluating evapotranspiration estimates at the watershed-scale using GRACE
Mirza M. Billah,Jonathan L. Goodall,Jonathan L. Goodall,U. Narayan,John T. Reager,Venkat Lakshmi,James S. Famiglietti,James S. Famiglietti +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a methodology for comparing watershed-average evapotranspiration (ET) within a water balance framework that makes use of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)-observed terrestrial water storage change (TWSC).
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Future land cover change scenarios in South African grasslands - implications of altered biophysical drivers on land management.
TL;DR: For S50E, NEE and ET will increase under this land cover change scenario leading to increased carbon sequestration but less water availability and corresponding surface temperature increases, implying that rehabilitation and land management initiatives should be targeted in catchments under a dualistic farming system, rather than those which are predominantly commercial systems.
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Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum
TL;DR: In this paper, a general method to compute past river flow paths, drainage basin geometries, and river discharges, by combining models of past ice sheets, glacial isostatic adjustment, and climate, is presented.
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Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the performance and validity of the MODIS vegetation indices (VI), the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and enhanced vegetation index(EVI), produced at 1-km and 500-m resolutions and 16-day compositing periods.
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TL;DR: In this article, the large-scale parameterization of the surface fluxes of sensible and latent heat is properly expressed in terms of energetic considerations over land while formulas of the bulk aerodynamic type are most suitahle over the sea.
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Summarizing multiple aspects of model performance in a single diagram
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