Modeling water regime of vast regions utilizing satellite data on land surface characteristics
A physically based land surface model has been developed for simulating water and heat balance components of vast terrains of a regional scale and allowing the use of satellite-derived data on land surface and snow cover characteristics. Specific techniques have been developed to utilize in the model satellite-derived estimates of vegetation and snow cover characteristics. These estimates have been derived with the help of the developed methods of thematic processing measurement data of AVHRR/NOAA, MODIS/EOS Terra and Aqua, AMSR-E/EOS Aqua and SEVIRI/Meteosat-9. The results are presented of modeling vertical water and heat fluxes, soil and snow cover water and heat content, land surface and soil temperatures for 227300 km2 area of the Central Black Earth zone of the European Russia for the period of 2008-2011.