The surface energy balance, comprised primarily of net radiation, heat conduction (i.e. soil heat flux) and turbulent heat flux components (i.e., sensible and latent heating), is the core of all processed-based land surface models. Accurate estimates of energy balance components are essential to address a variety of scientific and application issues related to climate trends, weather predictions, hydrologic and biogeophysical modeling, for monitoring ecosystem health and agricultural crops, and for water and solar energy resource applications. Extensive field studies have been conducted and measurement networks designed to quantify land surface radiation and energy budgets from ground-based instrumentation. These have been used to develop techniques and validate estimates from remote sensing-based methods, and output from land surface models. This three-day conference will provide an international forum to examine what we have achieved in quantifying the earth’s energy balance of land surfaces and to discuss future research directions to address current deficiencies in modeling, measurement and remote sensing of radiation and surface energy budgets.

Both review and technical papers are solicited on the following suggested topics:  

１  Ground-based instrumentation and observations
２  Airborne and spaceborne instrumentation and observations
３  Remote sensing and modeling of shortwave radiation and albedo
４  Remote sensing and modeling of surface temperature and emissivity
５  Remote sensing and modeling of net radiation
６  Remote sensing and modeling of surface energy balance and evapotranspiration
７  Data fusion and assimilation methods using remote sensing data
８  Applications of radiation and energy balance products
９  Validation and accuracy assessment of remote sensing and model output

Venue: Yingdong Hall, Beijing Normal University

Meeting time: March 18-20, 2009

Immediate deadline: Jan 15, 2009 for abstract submission