Optimised rooting depth and its impacts on the simulated climate of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 345-348

  Kleidon, Axel ^a   Heimann, Martin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; DEFORESTATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AGCM);

HYDROLOGY; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GCM; ROOTING DEPTH;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; TROPICAL REGIONS; VEGETATION PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031597130     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00034     Document Type: Article

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