Effects of Different Land Use Types on Soil Surface Temperature in the Heihe River Basin

Guanghui Yuan, Yu Zhang, Erchen Li and Yubao Liu ()
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Guanghui Yuan: Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Yu Zhang: Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Erchen Li: Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Yubao Liu: Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: The micrometeorological elements, radiation budget, and surface energy distribution at four sites with land cover types of vegetable, orchard, maize, and desert in the Heihe River basin (HRB) from June 2012 to September 2012 are compared to investigate the differences in the land–atmosphere interaction between different surface types and the biophysical effects of land use and land cover change on surface temperature. The desert site has the highest soil surface temperature during both daytime and nighttime. The strongest cooling effects of maize, orchard, and vegetable are −20.43, −19.35, and −16.42 K, respectively, during daytime, and the average cooling effects are −1.38, −2.52, and −0.93 K, respectively, at nighttime. The differences in the surface cooling effects of the non-desert sites relative to the desert are attributed to the differences in albedo and incoming shortwave radiation, emissivity and incoming longwave radiation, sensible heat flux, latent heat flux, and soil surface heat flux, according to the direct decomposed temperature metric theory. The radiation terms have negative feedbacks on the cooling effects in the non-desert sites. Latent heat flux plays a key role in the differences in the surface temperature among the four sites during both daytime and nighttime, and the soil surface heat flux is also a main factor at night.

Keywords: land use and land cover change; soil surface temperature; latent heat flux; soil surface heat flux; land–atmosphere interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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