Remote Sensing (Sep 2021)
Monitoring Water and Energy Cycles at Climate Scale in the Third Pole Environment (CLIMATE-TPE)
- Zhongbo Su,
- Yaoming Ma,
- Xuelong Chen,
- Xiaohua Dong,
- Junping Du,
- Cunbo Han,
- Yanbo He,
- Jan G. Hofste,
- Maoshan Li,
- Mengna Li,
- Shaoning Lv,
- Weiqiang Ma,
- María J. Polo,
- Jian Peng,
- Hui Qian,
- Jose Sobrino,
- Rogier van der Velde,
- Jun Wen,
- Binbin Wang,
- Xin Wang,
- Lianyu Yu,
- Pei Zhang,
- Hong Zhao,
- Han Zheng,
- Donghai Zheng,
- Lei Zhong,
- Yijian Zeng
Affiliations
- Zhongbo Su
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Yaoming Ma
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Xuelong Chen
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Xiaohua Dong
- College of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
- Junping Du
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Cunbo Han
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Yanbo He
- National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
- Jan G. Hofste
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Maoshan Li
- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610103, China
- Mengna Li
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Shaoning Lv
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Weiqiang Ma
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- María J. Polo
- Grupo de Dinámica Fluvial e Hidrología, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
- Jian Peng
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Remote Sensing, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- Hui Qian
- Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effect in Arid Region of Ministry of Education, School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
- Jose Sobrino
- Global Change Unit, Departament de Termodinamica, Facultat de Fisica, Universitat de Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
- Rogier van der Velde
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Jun Wen
- Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610103, China
- Binbin Wang
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Xin Wang
- Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Regions, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
- Lianyu Yu
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Pei Zhang
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Hong Zhao
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- Han Zheng
- Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effect in Arid Region of Ministry of Education, School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
- Donghai Zheng
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Climatic Effects Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Lei Zhong
- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Yijian Zeng
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183661
- Journal volume & issue
-
Vol. 13,
no. 18
p. 3661
Abstract
A better understanding of the water and energy cycles at climate scale in the Third Pole Environment is essential for assessing and understanding the causes of changes in the cryosphere and hydrosphere in relation to changes of plateau atmosphere in the Asian monsoon system and for predicting the possible changes in water resources in South and East Asia. This paper reports the following results: (1) A platform of in situ observation stations is briefly described for quantifying the interactions in hydrosphere-pedosphere-atmosphere-cryosphere-biosphere over the Tibetan Plateau. (2) A multiyear in situ L-Band microwave radiometry of land surface processes is used to develop a new microwave radiative transfer modeling system. This new system improves the modeling of brightness temperature in both horizontal and vertical polarization. (3) A multiyear (2001–2018) monthly terrestrial actual evapotranspiration and its spatial distribution on the Tibetan Plateau is generated using the surface energy balance system (SEBS) forced by a combination of meteorological and satellite data. (4) A comparison of four large scale soil moisture products to in situ measurements is presented. (5) The trajectory of water vapor transport in the canyon area of Southeast Tibet in different seasons is analyzed, and (6) the vertical water vapor exchange between the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere in different seasons is presented.
Keywords
