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For this purpose, sequences of reference-level air temperature and specific humidity were assimilated into an atmospheric boundary layer model (ABL) within a variational data assimilation (VDA) framework to estimate H and LE. The VDA approach was tested at six sites (namely, Arou, Audubon, Bondville, Brookings, Desert, and Willow Creek) with contrasting climatic and vegetative conditions. The unknowns of the VDA system were the neutral bulk heat transfer coefficient (CHN) and evaporative fraction (EF). EF estimates were found to agree well with observations in terms of magnitude and day-to-day fluctuations in wet\/densely vegetated sites but degraded in dry\/sparsely vegetated sites. Similarly, in wet\/densely vegetated sites, the variations in the CHN estimates were found to be consistent with those of the leaf area index (LAI) while this consistency deteriorated in dry\/sparely vegetated sites. The root mean square errors (RMSEs) of daily H and LE estimates at the Arou site (wet) were 25.43 (Wm\u22122) and 55.81 (Wm\u22122), which are respectively 57.6% and 45.4% smaller than those of 60.00 (Wm\u22122) and 102.21 (Wm\u22122) at the Desert site (dry). Overall, the results show that the VDA system performs well at wet\/densely vegetated sites (e.g., Arou and Willow Creek), but its performance degrades at dry\/slightly vegetated sites (e.g., Desert and Audubon). These outcomes show that the sequences of reference-level air temperature and specific humidity have more information on the partitioning of available energy between the sensible and latent heat fluxes in wet\/densely vegetated sites than dry\/slightly vegetated sites.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12071065","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,1]],"date-time":"2020-04-01T03:44:13Z","timestamp":1585712653000},"page":"1065","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Feasibility of Estimating Turbulent Heat Fluxes via Variational Assimilation of Reference-Level Air Temperature and Specific Humidity Observations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8023-4154","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elahe","family":"Tajfar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7134-0067","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sayed M.","family":"Bateni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7476-2735","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Essam","family":"Heggy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA"},{"name":"Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1744-8974","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tongren","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"271","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2006.07.006","article-title":"Scale influences on the remote estimation of evapotranspiration using multiple satellite sensors","volume":"105","author":"McCabe","year":"2006","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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