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Accuracy of surface heat fluxes from observations of operational satellites

IR@NIO: CSIR-National Institute Of Oceanography, Goa


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Creator	Pankajakshan, T. Sugimori, Y.

Date	2009-01-25T06:35:20Z 2009-01-25T06:35:20Z 1995

Identifier	Remote sensing and geographical information systems for environmental planning. Ed. by: Muralikrishna, I.V. 368-372p. http://hdl.handle.net/2264/2411

Description	Uncertainties in the flux estimates, resulting from the use of bulk method and remotely sensed data are worked out and are presented for individual and total fluxes. These uncertainties in satellite derived fluxes are further compared with uncertainties for same flux values resulting from climatological ship observations. For net satellite derived heat flux varying from 0 to 300 w/m sup(2) the uncertainties were found to be of the order of 50-90 w/m sup(2). For the same range of flux values the possible uncertainties in ground based climatological estimate were from 40 to 80 w/m sup(2). This increase in uncertainties for satellite derived fluxes were found to be due to remote sensing error. By incorporating satellite measured radiance and atmospheric radiative transfer model in the estimation of radiation budget, the total error bar can be reduced to 30-80 w/m sup(2) from 50-90 w/m sup(2), showing that satellite derived heat fluxes are having accuracies better that (or equal to) those of climatological estimates

Language	en

Publisher	Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, India

Rights	Copyright [1995]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.

Title	Accuracy of surface heat fluxes from observations of operational satellites

Type	Conference Article