The study on the land surface heat fluxes over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan plateau

Yaoming Ma, Tandong Yao, Jiemin Wang, Zeyong Hu, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Weiqiang Ma, Massimo Menenti, Zhongbo Su

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Abstract

The exchange of heat fluxes between land surface and atmosphere over the Tibetan plateau area plays an important role in the Asian monsoon system, which in turn is a major component of both the energy and water cycles of the global climate system. It was also regarded as the main task in the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) Asian Monsoon Experiment on the Tibetan plateau (GAME/Tibet, 1996-2000) and CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period) Asia-Australia Monsoon Project (CAMP) on the Tibetan plateau (CAMP/Tibet, 2001-2006). Firstly, the field experiments of the GAME/Tibet and the CAMP/Tibet are introduced and some results on the local energy partitioning (the diurnal variations and inter-monthly variations of radiation energy budget and land surface energy budget) are presented in this study.

The study of the regional distribution of land surface heat fluxes of paramount importance over heterogeneous landscape of the Tibetan Plateau is also one of the main scientific objectives of the GAME/Tibet and the CAMP/Tibet. Therefore, the regional distributions and their inter-monthly variations of surface heat fluxes (net radiation flux, soil heat flux, sensible heat flux and latent heat flux) are also presented here by combining five Landsat-7 ETM images with the field observations. The derived results were validated by using the “ground truth”, and it shows that the derived regional distributions and their inter-monthly variations of land surface heat fluxes are reasonable.

In order to upscale the land surface heat fluxes to the whole Tibetan Plateau area, the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is establishing a monitoring and Research Platform (MORP) for land surface and atmospheric processes on the Tibetan plateau. The establishing and monitoring plan of longterm scale (5-10 years) of the MORP, three new comprehensive observation and study stations (Mt. Qomolangma?Mt. Everest, Nam Cuo and Linzhi) and the up-scaling way were also introduced in this paper.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1215-1223
Number of pages9
JournalAdvances in earth science
Volume21
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Keywords

  • WRS
  • ADLIB-ART-3121

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