MODELINGOF ENERGY BUDGET USING SIMPLE BIOSPHERE MODEL VERSION 2(SiB2) OVER TIBETAN NAQU PRAIRIE

SiB2 (Simple Biosphere model version 2) is adopted to simulate surface energy budget in offline mode with certain atmospheric forcing values measured in the near surface observations taken over in the Tibetan short grass prairie as a part of the GAME/Tibet (DEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment/Tibet) experiment. On the condition that all parameters are reasonably fixed, the simulated net radiation, latent heat flux and soil heat flux are shown to be basically in agreement with observations with their relative errors being 8% (underestimated), 6% (underestimated), and 3% (underestimated), respectively; in meantime, SiB2 overestimates sensible heat flux by 40%. The detail analysis about energy components is conducted.