Regional evapotranspiration from an image-based implementation of the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC1.2) model and its validation across an aridity gradient in the conterminous US
dc.contributor.author | Bhattarai, Nishan | |
dc.contributor.author | Mallick, Kaniska | |
dc.contributor.author | Brunsell, Nathaniel A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sun, Ge | |
dc.contributor.author | Jain, Meha | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-20T03:12:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-20T03:12:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bhattarai, N., Mallick, K., Brunsell, N. A., Sun, G., & Jain, M.2017. Regional evapotranspiration from image-based implementation of the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC1.2) model and its validation across an aridity gradient in the conterminous United States, Hydrogy and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2017 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/143157 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent studies have highlighted the need for improved characterizations of aerodynamic conductance and temperature (gA and T0) in thermal remote sensing-based surface energy balance (SEB) models to reduce uncertainties in regional-scale evapotranspiration (ET) mapping. By integrating radiometric surface temperature (TR) into the Penman-Monteith (PM) equation and finding analytical solutions of gA and T0, this need was recently addressed by the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC) model. However, previous implementations of STIC were confined to the ecosystem-scale using flux tower observations of infrared temperature. This study demonstrates the first regional-scale implementation of the most recent version of the STIC model (STIC1.2) that physically integrates Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived TR and ancillary land surface variables in conjunction with NLDAS (North American Land Data Assimilation System) atmospheric variables into a combined structure of the PM and Shuttleworth-Wallace framework for estimating ET at 1 km × 1 km spatial resolution. Evaluation of STIC1.2 at thirteen core AmeriFlux sites covering a broad spectrum of climates and biomes across an aridity gradient in the conterminous US suggests that STIC1.2 can provide spatially explicit ET maps with reliable accuracies from dry to wet extremes. When observed ET from one wet, one dry, and one normal precipitation year from all sites were combined, STIC1.2 explained 66 % of the variability in observed 8-day cumulative ET with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 7.4 mm/8-day, mean absolute error (MAE) of 5 mm/8-day, and percent bias (PBIAS) of -4 %. These error statistics show higher accuracies than a widely-used SEB-based Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) and PM-based MOD16 ET, which were found to overestimate (PBIAS = 28 %) and underestimate ET (PBIAS = -26 %), respectively. The performance of STIC1.2 was better in forest and grassland ecosystems as compared to cropland (20 % underestimation) and woody savanna (40 % overestimation). Model inter-comparison suggested that ET differences between the models are robustly correlated with gA and associated roughness length estimation uncertainties which are intrinsically connected to TR uncertainties, vapour pressure deficit (DA), and vegetation cover. A consistent performance of STIC1.2 in a broad range of hydrological and biome categories as well as the capacity to capture spatio-temporal ET signatures across an aridity gradient points to its potential for near real time ET mapping from regional to continental scales. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | NASA Land-Cover Land-Use Change Grant (NNX17AH97G) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | NASA new investigator program award (NNX16AI19G) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | BIOTRANS (grant number, 00001145) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | CAOS-2 project grant (INTER/DFG/14/02) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | STEREOIII (INTER/STEREOIII/13/03/HiWET; CONTRACT NR SR/00/301) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Copernicus Publications | en_US |
dc.subject | radiometric surface temperature | en_US |
dc.subject | aerodynamic conductance | en_US |
dc.subject | aerodynamic temperature | en_US |
dc.subject | aridity gradient | en_US |
dc.subject | STIC1.2 | en_US |
dc.subject | MOD16 | en_US |
dc.subject | SEBS | en_US |
dc.title | Regional evapotranspiration from an image-based implementation of the Surface Temperature Initiated Closure (STIC1.2) model and its validation across an aridity gradient in the conterminous US | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Natural Resources and Environment | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Remote Sensing and Ecohydrological Modeling, Water Security and Safety Research Unit, Dept. ERIN, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 4422 Belvaux, Luxembourg | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143157/1/hess-2017-535.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143157/4/hess-22-2311-2018.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of hess-2017-535.pdf : SUPERSEDED: for historical purposes only | |
dc.owningcollname | Environment and Sustainability, School for (SEAS/SNRE) |
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