Numerical investigations on the influence of subgrid-scale surface heterogeneity on evapotranspiration and cloud processes

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 782-795

  Mölders, Nicole ^a   Raabe, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

CLOUD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT; PRECIPITATION FORMATION; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE HETEROGENEITY;

EID: 0030472972     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0782:NIOTIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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