The role of root distribution for climate simulation over land

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4533-4536

  Zeng, Xubin ^a   Dai, Yong Jiu ^a,b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Shaikh, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

VERTICAL ROOT DISTRIBUTION; CLIMATE SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OFF-LINE SIMULATIONS; ROOT DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFER SCHEME; VEGETATION CATEGORIES; VERTICAL ROOT DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER AND ENERGIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; HEAT FLUX; ROOT COLONIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0032535039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900216     Document Type: Article

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