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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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Time Series MODIS and in Situ Data Analysis for Mongolia Drought

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Soil Moisture Retrival Based on Sentinel-1 Imagery under Sparse Vegetation Coverage.

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Solute and sediment export from Amazon forest and soybean headwater streams

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Improving a distributed hydrological model using evapotranspiration‐related boundary conditions as additional constraints in a data‐scarce river basin

TL;DR: Wambura et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a model for agricultural landscape hydrology at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany.
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Regional modeling of surface‐atmosphere interactions and their impact on Great Lakes hydroclimate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the control on atmospheric moisture simulated by a regional climate model (RegCM) with observations and reanalysis products for the Great Lakes region, and conclude that climate models, including those driving reanalyses, underestimate the observed surface-atmosphere feedbacks and their influence on regional hydroclimate.
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