Evaluating the spatial and temporal model performance of distributed hydrological models is necessary to ensure that simulated patterns are meaningful. In recent years, remote sensing data have been increasingly used for evaluation. Previous studies, however, focused on either or addition, (or spatial) evaluation often conducted in a spatially temporally) lumped approach. Here, we evaluated (1)...

As a typical inland river basin, Heihe River basin has been experiencing severe water resource competition between different land cover types, especially in the middle stream and downstream areas. Terrestrial actual evapotranspiration (ETa), including evaporation from soil and water surfaces, evaporation of rainfall interception, transpiration of vegetation canopy and sublimation of snow and gl...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a vital component in land-atmosphere interactions. In drylands, over 90% of annual rainfall evaporates. The Nile Basin in Africa is about 42% dryland in a region experiencing rapid population growth and development. The relationship of ET with climate, vegetation and land cover in the basin during 2002–2011 is analyzed using thermal-based Simplified Surface Energy Bal...

We assess the water balance of the Brazilian Cerrado based on remotely sensed estimates of precipitation (TRMM), evapotranspiration (MOD16), and terrestrial water storage (GRACE) for the period from 2003 to 2010. Uncertainties for each remotely sensed data set were computed, the budget closure was evaluated using measured discharge data for the three largest river basins in the Cerrado, and the...

The present research work was undertaken to estimate the ground water recharge in Shankergarh block, Allahabad (India) during the year 2008. The data set used consisted of satellite derived rainfall and actual evapotranspiration and SCS-CN model estimated runoff values. The monthly values of the different components of water balance equation were estimated and subsequently the ground water rech...

Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is one of the significant parameters in agricultural irrigation, especially Heilongjiang, a big province China. In this research, spatiotemporal variation characteristics (ET), relative moisture index (MI) and influencing factors ET0 which was divided into six ecology districts according to landforms, were analyzed with meteorological data observed over 40 yea...

Inner Mongolia is one of the main green production bases agricultural and animal husbandry products. Due to factors such as natural geographical location, drought occurs frequently in Mongolia. Based on MOD16 product method crop water stress index (CWSI) combined with multi-year precipitation temperature data, spatial temporal distribution characteristics major influencing from 2001 2017 were a...

The Amazon rainforest is an important source of evapotranspiration and essential in the global atmospheric circulation hydrological cycle. However, measurements on vegetated surfaces are difficult, methods such as remote sensing promising micrometeorological data area. We aimed to assess applicability MOD16 product estimate a (LEMOD) derive from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sen...

A reliable thermal-derived method for spatially and temporally continuous latent heat flux (LE) estimates is vital agricultural water resource management. In this study, we proposed a novel three-source LE model (TSLEM) derived by all-weather thermal infrared (TIR) land surface temperature (LST) to generate all-sky daily in mainland China. approach, was partitioned into the energy fluxes from c...