extended abstract   introduction the most important indicator of climate in a region is vegetation community. climate can be different over large areas, because of changes in vegetation community. vegetation influences weather and climate in its surrounding areas mostly by way of evapotranspiration and albedo so they play a role in the earth’s energy balance. these effects on the earth’s energy...

Examining climate-related satellite data that strongly relate to seasonal phenomena requires appropriate methods for detecting the seasonality to accommodate different temporal resolutions, high signal variability and consecutive missing values in the data series. Detection of satellite-based Land Surface Temperature (LST) seasonality is essential and challenging due to missing data and noise i...

APRIL 2004 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | S atellite-based surface temperature is referred to as skin temperature (Dickinson 1994). The National Research Council (NRC; 2000) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC; Houghton et al. 2001) pointed out the urgent need for long-term remote sensing–based land surface skin temperature (LST) data in global warming studies to improve ...

In this study, we retrieved the land surface temperature (LST) of Guangzhou on Jan 14, 2013 from HJ-1B satellite data. The retrieval was based on the characteristics of HJ-1B thermal infrared band and revised QK&B algorithm was adopted. The established partial differential equation showed that emissivity error of 0.01 resulted in LST error of around 0.6 K. The LST error was inversely proportion...

Land Surface Temperature (LST) can be calculated through a thermal infrared remote sensing data. It can record the apparent temperature of the Earth’s surface by measuring the radiant energy exiting its surface. With the advent of satellite images and digital image processing software, now it is possible to calculate LST. In this study, LST for Devikulam taluk was derived using Single Window al...

Land surface temperature (LST) has a significant role in the land surface characters on local and global scale. The most important task in estimation of LST from satellite thermal data is removing the effects of atmospheric attenuations, topographic and land surface emissivity. To date, several techniques have been proposed to retrieve LST with various applications, advantages and drawbacks. Th...

Urbanization-associated land use and land cover (LULC) changes lead to modifications of surface microclimatic and hydrological conditions, including the formation of urban heat islands and changes in surface runoff pattern. The goal of the paper is to investigate the changes of biophysical variables due to urbanization induced LULC changes in Indianapolis, USA, from 2001 to 2006. The biophysica...