East Asia and Western Pacific METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATE

256
staion of LID (farmland in the forest belt between desert and oasis ),
Huayin, southwest of Linze county (Gobi) and North of Pingchuan
(desert)*
The central station is located at Linze, where the automatic data
collecting and transmitting system will be set up to remotely control
the operations of measurements at 5 basic experimental stations and to
record the observational data 'from them.
In addition, there are 1*1 rainfall stations and a mobile station
for multi-parameter observation.
III.
Scientific Problems
The main scientific problems for realizing the objectives
mentioned above are as follows:
(1) Development of measuring techniques and computing methodology
for the determination of the heat and evaporation fluxes over the
nonuniform ground surface in the arid area*
(2) Study on the vertical structure of the surface layer and
planetary boundary layer over various land surfaces (desert, Gobi,
irrigated farmland, etc.)* and the advection effectes on the vertical
transport of energy in the PBL over the whole experimental area.
(3) Study on the influences of surface and sub-surface conditions
(such as vegetative processes and soil moisture) on the surface water
and energy budget.
(4) Development of the methodology for spatial integration and
parameterization of net raidiation, heat flux, evaporation and
rainfall for the area with various types of land surface.
(5) The numerical experiment simulating the interaction between
climate and land surface.
(6) The characteristics of radiative physics and its variation for
various land surfaces, and the statistical study on the comparision
between the ground-truth and satellite-observed data (NOAA, GMS).
(7) The concentration and size distributions of atmospheric dust