Application of Remotely Sensed Data in the Estimation of Net Radiation at the Earth’s Surface in Clear Sky Conditions

Roopashree Shrivastava; Indumathi Srinivasan Iyer; Mahabaleshwar Narayan Hegde; Rajendrakumar Balkrishna Oza

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Application of Remotely Sensed Data in the Estimation of Net Radiation at the Earth’s Surface in Clear Sky Conditions

Roopashree Shrivastava, Indumathi Srinivasan Iyer, Mahabaleshwar Narayan Hegde, Rajendrakumar Balkrishna Oza

Published in American Journal of Remote Sensing (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Received: 7 February 2018 Accepted: 25 February 2018 Published: 20 March 2018

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Abstract

This study focuses on the estimation of shortwave and longwave radiation utilizing measured data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA’s) Terra / Aqua satellites in clear sky conditions. The net radiation is the vector sum of the shortwave and longwave radiation coming towards and going away from the Earth’s surface. The study is carried out for a tropical site Kaiga, located in Southern India for the months of March and April representative of the warm season and the months of November and December representative of the cold season in the year 2013. The validity of the net radiation values estimated from MODIS data is assessed by comparing it with simultaneous ground based measurements from the Mini Boundary Layer Masts (MBLMs). The results indicate that the net radiation values estimated by the satellite are well correlated with the ground based measurements (R² = 0.983). On an average, for the four months of study, the mean absolute error between the satellite and ground based measurements is 35 W m^-2 where as the RMSE is 50 W m^-2. Once validated with ground based measurements, the satellite derived net radiation data can be used for validation of land surface energy balance predicted by atmospheric models.

Published in	American Journal of Remote Sensing (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajrs.20180601.14
Page(s)	23-28
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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MODIS, MBLM, Net Radiation

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Roopashree Shrivastava, Indumathi Srinivasan Iyer, Mahabaleshwar Narayan Hegde, Rajendrakumar Balkrishna Oza. Application of Remotely Sensed Data in the Estimation of Net Radiation at the Earth’s Surface in Clear Sky Conditions. Am J Remote Sens. 2018;6(1):23-28. doi: 10.11648/j.ajrs.20180601.14

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Roopashree Shrivastava

Radiation Safety Systems Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Indumathi Srinivasan Iyer

Radiation Safety Systems Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
Mahabaleshwar Narayan Hegde

Environmental Survey Laboratory, Kaiga Generating Station, Karwar, India
Rajendrakumar Balkrishna Oza

Radiation Safety Systems Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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