Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2835-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2835-2021
Research article
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24 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2021

Estimating subpixel turbulent heat flux over leads from MODIS thermal infrared imagery with deep learning

Zhixiang Yin, Xiaodong Li, Yong Ge, Cheng Shang, Xinyan Li, Yun Du, and Feng Ling

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Codes of super-resolution of ice surface temperture and super-resolution lead mapping Zhixiang Yin and Feng Ling https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5006637

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Short summary
MODIS thermal infrared (TIR) imagery provides promising data to study the rapid variations in the Arctic turbulent heat flux (THF). The accuracy of estimated THF, however, is low (especially for small leads) due to the coarse resolution of the MODIS TIR data. We train a deep neural network to enhance the spatial resolution of estimated THF over leads from MODIS TIR imagery. The method is found to be effective and can generate a result which is close to that derived from Landsat-8 TIR imagery.