CONCERTED EARTH OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLES IN THE THIRD POLE ENVIRONMENT (CEOP-TPE)

摘要

The achievements made in Dragon III in 2014-2016 are listed below: 1. Maintaining the Tibetan Plateau Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature Observatory (Tibet-Obs) [1-3] and developing a method and data product by blending SM product over Tibetan Plateau and evaluating other available SM products [4]. 2. Developing a new algorithm for representing the effective soil temperature in microwave radiometry [5-7]. 3. Developing data sets to study the regional and plateau scale land-atmosphere interactions in TPE [8-11]. 4. Identifying and developing improved land surface processes [12-15]. 5. Developing a method for the quantification of water cycle components based on earth observation data and a comparison to reanalysis data [16-17]. 6. Investigating and revealing the mechanism of surface and tropospheric heatings on the Tibetan plateau [18]. 7. Proposing a validation framework for the generation of climate data records [19]. 8. Graduating seven young scientists with their doctorates during the last two years of Dragon III programme. 9. Making the datasets and algorithms accessible to the scientific community.