BackForward Variable: Land surface temperature

Definition
Full name Land surface temperature
Definition Temperature of the apparent surface of land (bare soil or vegetation) - Physical unit: [ K ] - Accuracy unit: [ K ].
Measuring Units K Uncertainty Units K
Horizontal Res Units km Vertical Res Units
Stability Units K (Stability /decade)

 

Comment:
Last modified:
Applied in OSCAR/Space Gap Analysis: Yes
Classification
  • Domain: Terrestrial
    • Sub-domain: Land surface
      • Variable: Land surface temperature
        • Measured in Layers:
          • Land surface
  • Cross-cutting themes:

Requirements defined for Land surface temperature  (7)

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Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red

Id Variable Layer App Area ATP Uncertainty Layer/s Quality Coverage Quality Stability / decade Hor Res Ver Res Obs Cyc Timeliness Coverage Conf Level Val Date Source General Comment Application Area Comment Horizontal Coverage Comment Observation Comment Performance Comment
40 Land surface temperature Land surface 2.9 Agricultural Meteorology 0.3 K
0.6 K
2 K 		0.1 km
0.5 km
10 km 		60 min
3 h
3 d 		3 h
6 h
24 h 		Global land reasonable 2003-10-20 ET ODRRGOS Detection of areas affected by frost; drought eval
97 Land surface temperature Land surface Climate-AOPC (deprecated) 1 K
1.3 K
2 K 		1 km
10 km
500 km 		24 h
2 d
3 d 		3 h
4 h
6 h 		Global land firm 2007-07-19 AOPC Signal size supports this need. See P.D. Jones et al. 1999. Surface air temperature and its changes over the past 150 years. Rev. Geophys., in press.
219 Land surface temperature Land surface GEWEX (deprecated) 1 K
2 K
4 K 		50 km
100 km
250 km 		3 h
6 h
12 h 		30 d
45 d
60 d 		Global land reasonable 1998-10-29 WCRP
278 Land surface temperature Land surface 2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring 0.5 K
1 K
4 K 		5 km
15 km
250 km 		30 min
3 h
6 h 		6 min
30 min
6 h 		Global land firm 2009-02-10 John Eyre
360 Land surface temperature Land surface 2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction 0.5 K
1 K
3 K 		1 km
5 km
20 km 		15 min
30 min
2 h 		15 min
30 min
2 h 		Global land reasonable 2019-12-04 JF Mahfouf
439 Land surface temperature Land surface 2.3 Nowcasting / Very Short-Range Forecasting 0.5 K
1 K
3 K 		1 km
5 km
30 km 		10 min
30 min
60 min 		10 min
30 min
60 min 		Global land reasonable 2013-04-03 P. Ambrosetti
830 Land surface temperature Land surface 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring 1 K 0.1 K 1 km 3 h Global reasonable 2019-09-30 GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016) Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level.