Brief description of bare essentials of surface transfer and results from simulations with the HAPEX-MOBILHY data

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 13, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 135-143

  Pitman, A J ^a   Desborough, C E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODEL; EVAPORATION; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE TRANSFER;

EID: 0030153351     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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