Abstract: A frequency?wavenumber power spectrum was constructed using satellite-derived outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and brightness temperature for the tropical latitudes. Since the two datasets overlap for over 34 years with ...

Abstract: The impact of different surface vegetations on long-term surface temperature change is estimated by subtracting reanalysis trends in monthly surface temperature anomalies from observation trends over the last four decades. ...

Abstract: he process of solar radiative transfer at the land surface is important to energy, water, and carbon balance, especially for vegetated areas. Currently the most commonly used two-stream model considers the plant functional ...

Abstract: his paper uses the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis to decompose satellite-derived nighttime land surface temperature (LST) for the period of 2003?11 into spatial patterns of different scales and thus to identify ...

Abstract: The authors establish the effect of urbanization on precipitation in the Pearl River Delta of China with data from an annual land use map (1988?96) derived from Landsat images and monthly climate data from 16 local ...

Abstract: Previous studies detected significant negative correlations between the nonuniform land surface warming and the decadal weakened activity of the summer extratropical cyclones (ECs) over East Asia/East Asian summer monsoon ...