An Improvement of Roughness Height Parameterization of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) over the Tibetan Plateau

Roughness height for heat transfer is a crucial parameter in the estimation of sensible heat flux. In this study, the performance of the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) has been tested and evaluated for typical land surfaces on the Tibetan Plateau on the basis of time series of observations at four sites with bare soil, sparse canopy, dense canopy, and snow surface, respectively. Both under- and overestimation at low and high sensible heat fluxes by SEBS was discovered. Through sensitivity analyses, it was identified that these biasesarerelatedtotheSEBSparameterizationofbaresoil’sexcessresistancetoheattransfer(kB 21 ,wherek is the von Karman constant and B 21 is the Stantonnumber). ThekB 21 of bare soil in SEBS was replaced. The results show that the revised model performs better than the original model.

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