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Beltrami, H., Wang, J. and Bras, R.L. (2000). Energy balance at the Earth's surface: Heat flux history in eastern Canada. Geophysical Research Letters 27: doi: 10.1029/2000GL008483. issn: 0094-8276. |
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The heat exchange at the air/ground interface is determined by many complex processes making the energy balance at the earth's surface extremely difficult to quantify and model. A new methodology allows heat flux at the Earth's surface to be estimated using ground surface temperature history reconstructed from geothermal data. We found that over a large region in eastern and central Canada, the average heat flux into the ground during the last 1000 years was on the order of 2.8 mWm-2. Our results suggest that significant change in the ground heat flux occurred in the last two centuries. The 200 years averaged heat flux since 1765 is 17.0 mWm-2, while the average heat flux over the latest 100 years is 74.0 mWm-2. The sensitivity of the subsurface to very small energy imbalances makes these type of data and analysis useful complements to the paleoclimatic record; they also provide constrains for general circulation model land-surface parameterization over a wide range of spatial-temporal scales. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union |
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Keywords
Global Change, Global Change, Climate dynamics, Global Change, Solid Earth, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Land/atmosphere interactions |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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