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Radiation and Water in the Climate System pp 401–429Cite as

Remote Sensing Parameterization of Meso-scale Land Surface Evaporation

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Land surface fluxes vary spatially as a result of the spatial heterogeneity of soil physical properties, fractional soil cover, land use, rainfall and hydrological processes. The scale at which this variability of surface fluxes occurs may be as low as a fraction of a meter, and time variations over a period of hours may be significant. The spatial average land surface flux at regional scale is because of length scale and sampling size difficult to quantify from field measurements. Although considerable progress has been made in this area over the last decade (e.g. Michand and Shuttleworth, 1996), there is no general consensus at this moment how to extrapolate surface fluxes from patch scale to meso-scale.

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Bastiaanssen, W.G.M., Menenti, M., Dolman, A.J., Feddes, R.A., Pelgrum, H. (1996). Remote Sensing Parameterization of Meso-scale Land Surface Evaporation. In: Raschke, E. (eds) Radiation and Water in the Climate System. Nato ASI Series, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03289-3_15

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