Modification of the land surface energy balance relationship by introducing vertical sensible heat advection and soil heat storage over the Loess Plateau

作者：Zhang Qiang^*; Li HongYu; Zhao JianHua

来源：Science China Earth Sciences, 2012, 55(4): 580-589.

DOI：10.1007/s11430-011-4220-3

• land surface energy imbalance
• Loess Plateau
• vertical sensible heat advection
• soil heat storage
• vertical velocity
• temperature gradient

Little is known about the surface energy balance problem for a complex underlying surface. Taking data from the Loess Plateau Land-surface Processes Experiment (LOPEX) and investigating the characteristics of the surface energy balance over a complex underlying surface, this paper calculates the soil heat storage and vertical sensible heat advection, analyzes their contributions to the surface energy imbalance, and discusses the mechanism by which the vertical velocity and temperature gradient in the surface layer affect the vertical sensible heat advection transfer. We found that the vertical velocity in the surface layer provides the necessary dynamic power for vertical sensible heat advection, and a relatively strong temperature gradient is the energy source generating vertical sensible heat advection. Under an ascending condition, the effect of vertical sensible heat advection on the surface energy budget is more obvious. It is also found that when the soil heat storage term and the vertical sensible heat advection term are added to the energy balance equation, the imbalance significantly improves. The peak of average diurnal residuals decreases from 125.1 to 41.5 W m(-2), the daily average absolute value of residuals falls from 59.0 to 26.4 W m(-2), and the surface energy balance closure increases from 78.4% to 94.0%.

• 出版日期2012-4
• 单位兰州大学; 甘肃省气象局; 中国气象局兰州干旱气象研究所