## 2.5.3. Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes and Temperature for Vegetated Surfaces[¶](#sensible-and-latent-heat-fluxes-and-temperature-for-vegetated-surfaces "Permalink to this headline")
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In the case of a vegetated surface, the sensible heat \\(H\\) and water vapor flux \\(E\\) are partitioned into vegetation and ground fluxes that depend on vegetation \\(T\_{v}\\) and ground \\(T\_{g}\\) temperatures in addition to surface temperature \\(T\_{s}\\) and specific humidity \\(q\_{s}\\). Because of the coupling between vegetation temperature and fluxes, Newton-Raphson iteration is used to solve for the vegetation temperature and the sensible heat and water vapor fluxes from vegetation simultaneously using the ground temperature from the previous time step. In section [2.5.3.1](#theory), the equations used in the iteration scheme are derived. Details on the numerical scheme are provided in section [2.5.3.2](#numerical-implementation).

