Seasonal dynamics of a suburban energy balance in Phoenix, Arizona

• Main Authors: CHOW, Winston T. L., VOLO, Thomas J., VIVONI, Enrique R., JENERETTE, G. Darrel, RUDDELL, Benjamin L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: surface energy balance; urban climate; evaporation; Environmental Sciences; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3060; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4317/viewcontent/joc.3947.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Observations of local-scale urban surface energy balance (SEB), which include fluxes of net all-wave radiation (Q*), and eddy covariance measurements of sensible (QH) and latent heat (QE) were collected in an arid Phoenix, AZ suburb from January to December 2012. We studied diurnal variations in SEB...