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Energy and Water Cycle over the Tibetan Plateau: Surface Energy Balance and Turbulent Heat Fluxes

  • SU Zhong-bo ,
  • MA Yao-ming ,
  • WEN Jun5 ,
  • JIA Li4 ,
  • ZHANG Ting
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  • 1.International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC Enschede 7500AA,the Netherlands; 2.Science & Technology Department, Tianjin Municipal Engineering Bureau,Tianjin 300022,China; 3.Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, Beijing 100085,China; 4.Alterra Green World Research, Wageningen University and Research Centre Wagenigen 6700AA,the Netherlands;5.Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, CAS,Lanzhou 730000,China

Received date: 2006-10-17

  Revised date: 2006-10-17

  Online published: 2006-12-15

Abstract

This contribution presents an overview and an outlook of studies on energy and water cycle over the Tibetan plateau with focuses on the estimation of energy balance terms and turbulent heat fluxes. On the basis of the surface energy balance calculations, we show that the phenomena of the energy imbalance exist in GAME/Tibet experiment data, although the explanations for the reasons are debated now and not resolved yet. We found that the derived latent heat flux is much higher than the measurements. However, the corrected-measurements, which are calculated according to the hypothesis of the energy balance, compare very well with the estimation of SEBS. On this basis it is concluded that the deviation is caused by the energy imbalance of ground measurements in GAME/Tibet experiment area. The latent heat fluxes were likely under-observed.

Cite this article

SU Zhong-bo , MA Yao-ming , WEN Jun5 , JIA Li4 , ZHANG Ting . Energy and Water Cycle over the Tibetan Plateau: Surface Energy Balance and Turbulent Heat Fluxes[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2006 , 21(12) : 1224 -1236 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2006.12.1224

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