主办单位:中国气象局沈阳大气环境研究所
国际刊号:ISSN 1673-503X
国内刊号:CN 21-1531/P

Journal of Meteorology and Environment ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 131-137.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-503X.2024.03.016

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Calculation of sunshine hours at grid points in Hubei province based on MODIS cloud products

Chi CHENG(),Yang CUl,Dan MENG   

  1. Hubei Provincial Meteorological Service Center/Meteorological Energy Development Center of Hubei Province, Wuhan 430205, China
  • Received:2023-11-14 Online:2024-06-28 Published:2024-08-09

Abstract:

Using MODIS remote sensing cloud cover data from 2019 to 2021, based on the negative correlation between surface meteorological observation sunshine percentage and satellite remote sensing cloud cover, an inversion calculation model was established for different months and regions. The monthly sunshine percentage and sunshine hours at a spatial resolution of 1 km were calculated, and representative surface meteorological station observation data were selected to verify the calculation results of sunshine hours. The results show that there is a highly significant correlation between the monthly average remote sensing cloud cover and the percentage of sunshine in different climatic regions of Hubei province. The relative error in calculating annual (monthly) sunshine hours at each representative station is less than 2% (10 hours), indicating that the constructed sunshine hours inversion model has high calculation accuracy. The calculated annual sunshine hours in Hubei range from 854.8 hours to 1952.8 hours. The southwestern western regions of Hubei province have the lowest sunshine hours, with annual sunshine hours below 1100 hours. The northeastern northern and northwestern southern regions of Hubei province have the highest sunshine hours, with annual sunshine hours exceeding 1850 hours. From the inversion results of sunshine hours, it is also found that due to the thermal conditions differences between water and land, the cloud cover over lakes in the Hubei plain areas are less than that of surrounding land, and the sunshine hours are larger than that of surrounding land.

Key words: Cloud cover, Sunshine hours, Sunshine percentage

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