Land Surface Evaporation: Measurement and Parameterization

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Atmospheric Parameterization Schemes for Evaporation over Land: Basic Concepts and Climate Modeling Aspects....Pages 5-29
Parameterization of Land-Surface Processes in Numerical Weather Prediction....Pages 31-54
Parameterization Schemes of Land-Surface Processes for Mesoscale Atmospheric Models....Pages 55-92
Evaporation Models in Hydrology....Pages 93-120
A Two-Dimensional Model of the Hydrological Response of a Hillslope....Pages 121-135
Introduction of a Realistic Soil-Vegetation Component in a Hydrological Model: Application to HAPEX-MOBILHY Experiment....Pages 137-144
Land Surface Processes: Description, Theoretical Approaches, and Physical Laws Underlying Their Measurements....Pages 145-155
Fluxes in the Surface Layer Under Advective Conditions....Pages 157-169
A Critical Assessment of the Samer Network Accuracy....Pages 171-182
Using One- or Two-Layer Models for Evaporation Estimation with Remotely Sensed Data....Pages 183-197
On the Maintenance and Measurement of Scalar Fluxes....Pages 199-229
Errors in Eddy Correlation Turbulence Measurements from Aircraft: Application to HAPEX-MOBILHY....Pages 231-243
Water Vapor Flux Measurements from Aircraft....Pages 245-260
Heat and Moisture Fluxes over the Pine Forest in HAPEX....Pages 261-273
Temporal Variation of Heat and Moisture Flux Within the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over a Grassland....Pages 275-285
Use of Soil Moisture Measurements in Hydrologic Balance Studies....Pages 287-299
Indirect Measurements of Fluxes Using Doppler Sodar....Pages 301-311
In Situ Water Vapor Measurements in the Lyman-alpha and Infrared Spectrum: Theory and Components....Pages 313-335
Remote Sensing Observations for the Monitoring of Land-Surface Fluxes and Water Budgets....Pages 337-347
Recent Advances in Modeling the Infrared Temperature of Vegetation Canopies....Pages 349-358
Computer Simulation of Regional Evapotranspiration by Integrating Landscape Biophysical Attributes with Satellite Data....Pages 359-369
Implications for Remote Sensing of Natural Switching from Atmosphere-Controlled to Soil-Controlled Evaporation or Infiltration....Pages 371-381
An Example of Spatial Integration of a Land-Surface Parameterization in a Meso-Beta-Scale Model....Pages 383-402
HAPEX-MOBILHY Data Base....Pages 403-410
The FIFE Data....Pages 411-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-424