Environmental Science
8 years ago

New Method Estimates Soil Heat Flux Without Wind Speed Data Accurately.

JOURNAL OF JAPAN SOCIETY OF HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES
Estimation of the Cumulative Sensible Heat Flux over a Bare Soil and its Daily Mean Soil Temperature without Wind Speed Data.
Tomoyoshi Hirota, Masato FUKUMOTO, Ryuichi Shirooka, Kazushige Yamada

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The study looked at estimating heat flux and soil temperature without wind speed data. They found that while daily heat flux estimates were less accurate without wind speed, monthly estimates were similar. The cumulative heat flux over several days matched observed values. Soil temperature estimates were also accurate without wind speed data. This suggests that routine meteorological data can be used to estimate heat flux and soil temperature without wind speed information.