Fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapour from a Sahelian savanna

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 80, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 231-248

  Verhoef, Anne ^a,b   Allen, Simon J ^b   De Bruin, Henk A R ^a   Jacobs, Cor M J ^a   Heusinkveld, Bert G ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FLUX; CARBON DIOXIDE; HAPEX-SAHEL; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; WATER VAPOUR;

NIGER;

EID: 0030425204     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1923(95)02294-5     Document Type: Article

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