Special Issue "Land Evapotranspiration and Groundwater Recycling"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhenhua Di
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Guest Editor
Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: simulation and optimization of land evapotranspiration; evaluation of land evapotranspiration products; groundwater simulation
Prof. Dr. Jianguo Liu
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Guest Editor
School of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Huaihua University, Huaihua 418000, China
Interests: ensemble forecasting of land evapotranspiration; numerical simulaiton of groundwater; drought
Prof. Dr. Keqiang Dong
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Guest Editor
College of science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300399, China
Interests: land evapotranspiration monitoring; groundwater monitoring; terrestrial water budget
Dr. Shenglei Zhang
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Guest Editor
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Interests: remote sensing monitoring of land evapotranspiration; land data assimilation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Land evapotranspiration is a critical variable in land–atmosphere coupling, and therefore, its accurate estimation is very important for understanding land–atmosphere interaction. Because of this, contemporary studies have shifted their focus from land surface visible variables such as surface streamflow, soil moisture, and leaf area index to the invisible variable of land evapotranspiration. Groundwater is another invisible variable that is difficult to obtain because of its storage location. However, the variation of groundwater significantly affects land evapotranspiration by transmitting water content from the unsaturated soil column. Overall, land evaporation and groundwater are important variables of land–atmosphere interaction, but their estimations include great uncertainties.

At present, an increasing number of new techniques have been used to estimate and demonstrate the variations of land evaporation and groundwater, such as station instrument observation, satellite remote sensing inversion, land surface data assimilation, complex numerical algorithm, land model simulation, and ensemble forecasting. As a result, the demands for estimating land evapotranspiration and groundwater data or demonstrating their variation attributions using these new technologies are growing in many parts of the world. This Special Issue of Sustainability focuses on advances on land evapotranspiration and groundwater recycling. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Satellite-based land evapotranspiration estimation;
  • Evaluation of multiple land evapotranspiration products;
  • Generation and assessment of land evapotranspiration and groundwater products;
  • GRACE gravity satellite estimation method;
  • Land surface data assimilation
  • Remote sensing data fusion;
  • Land surface simulation;
  • Ensemble simulation and forecasting;
  • Model parameter optimization;
  • Machine learning for model simulation and application
  • Global and regional land evapotranspiration and groundwater evaluation.

Dr. Zhenhua Di
Prof. Dr. Jianguo Liu
Prof. Dr. Keqiang Dong
Dr. Shenglei Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • land evapotranspiration
  • groundwater
  • satellite data evaluation
  • modelling simulation
  • data assimilation
  • ensemble forecasting
  • numerical algorithm
  • uncertainty analysis
  • machine learning
  • water energy budget

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