Mapping Surface Parameters for Mesoscale Modeling in Forested and Deforested Southwestern Amazonia

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 413-423

  Calvet, Jean Christophe ^a,d   Santos Alvalá, Regina ^b   Jaubert, Geneviève ^a   Delire, Christine ^a   Nobre, Carlos ^b   Wright, Ivan ^c   Noilhan, Joël ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAPPING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RELIEF; SOIL; VEGETATION;

BRAZIL, AMAZONIA; BRAZIL, RONDONIA STATE;

EID: 0031406750     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0413:MSPRMM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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