Computing surface fluxes from Mesonet data

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1370-1383

  Zhou, Binbin ^a   Xu, Qin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; RADIATION BALANCE; SOIL WATER; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 0033380575     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<1370:CSFFMD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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