Energy balance above a boreal coniferous forest: A difference in turbulent fluxes between snow-covered and snow-free canopies

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-529

  Nakai, Yuichiro ^a   Sakamoto, Tomoki ^a   Terajima, Tomomi ^a   Kitamura, Kenzo ^a   Shirai, Tomoki ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Coniferous forest; Eddy correlation; Energy balance; Evaporation; Latent heat flux; Sensible heat flux; Snow covered canopy; Turbulent fluxes

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SNOW; TURBULENCE;

BOREAL CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY CORRELATIONS; ENERGY BALANCE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENERGY BUDGET; SNOW COVER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

JAPAN;

EID: 0033105126     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199903)13:4<515::AID-HYP712>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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