Summer energy budget simulation for A latitudinal transect along the east coast of the Americas
✍ Scribed by Terjung, Werner H. ;O'Rourke, Patricia A.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1984
- Weight
- 891 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2314-6214
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✦ Synopsis
The physically-based model BUDGET combined a solar radiation transmission model and a steady state slope energy budget model. Climatic observations, averaged for 10-degree latitude bands, were used as input in order to systematically examine the changing energy budget components (net radiation, conduction, sensible, and latent heat flux) occurring at the various slope angles (0 to 90°) and directions (south-, west-, and north-facing). Two contrasting landscapes were examined (barren and grassy) along a latitudinal transect of the east coast of the Americas (northern hemisphere). The response of energy budget components was systematic and orderly on a latitudinal basis. However, a great diversity among energy budgets between different slopes and their orientation at a particular latitude was characteristic and more pronounced in the higher latitudes. These findings were assumed to be general enough to encompass most of the possible contrasts encountered in a real-world north-south transect.