Observations of albedo and radiation balance over postforest land surfaces in the eastern Amazon Basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 919-928

  Giambelluca, Thomas W ^a   Hölscher, Dirk ^b   Bastos, Therezinha X ^c   Frazão, Reginaldo R ^c   Nullet, Michael A ^a   Ziegler, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALBEDO; LAND SURFACE; RADIATION BALANCE; RADIATION FLUX;

BRAZIL, AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL, PARA STATE;

EID: 0031419623     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0919:OOAARB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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