Variability in surface energy flux partitioning during Washita '92: Resulting effects on Penman-Monteith and Priestley-Taylor parameters

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 82, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 171-193

  Kustas, William P ^a   Stannard, David I ^b   Allwine, K Jerry ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

BOWEN RATIO ENERGY BALANCE; CLOUD COVER; SURFACE ENERGY FLUX; VEGETATION TYPE;

USA, OKLAHOMA, LITTLE WASHITA RIVER;

EID: 0030302125     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(96)02334-9     Document Type: Article

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