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- Title
Impacts of Dem Uncertainty on Estimated Surface Solar Radiation and Extracted River Network.
- Authors
Wang, Laigang; Wang, Kaicun
- Abstract
Digital elevation models (DEMs) have important meteorological, hydrological, and climatological applications. This research studies the uncertainties of six widely accepted global DEM datasets over China and their derivative parameters, including slope and aspect, in calculating the surface-received solar radiation and extracting the river networks. The authors' results indicate that, although the absolute height values of the six DEM data are nearly identical, substantial and significant differences are introduced when estimating the surface-received solar radiation. The extracted drainage streamflows of the Pearl River basin in South China are close to the actual river networks in general but are quite different in some details that cannot be ignored. Results herein highlight that the uncertainties of DEM themselves as well as their derived parameters must be considered in analogous study.
- Subjects
PEARL River (China); SOLAR radiation; DIGITAL elevation models; COMPUTER simulation; CLIMATOLOGY
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2015, Vol 96, Issue 2, p297
- ISSN
0003-0007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00285.1