A daily resolution evapoclimatonomy model applied to surface water balance calculations at the HAPEX-Sahel supersites

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 188-189, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 946-964

  Nicholson, Sharon E ^a   Marengo, José A ^a   Kim, Jeeyoung ^a   Lare, Andrew R ^b   Galle, Sylvie ^c   Kerr, Yann H ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d Lab d'Etud Rech Teledetection S   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY RESOLUTION; EVAPOCLIMATONOMY; HAPEX-SAHEL; MILLET; NDVI; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER BALANCE;

AFRICA, SAHEL; NIGER, SAHEL;

ARID REGIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF; SOLAR RADIATION;

LETTAU EVAPOCLIMATONOMY MODEL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOIL MOISTURE;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 0030615643     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03178-2     Document Type: Article

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