An equation for irregular distributions of leaf azimuth density

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 223-234

  Teh, C B S ^a   Simmonds, L P ^a   Wheeler, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canopy architecture; Leaf azimuth; Radiation model; Von Mises

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034709412     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(00)00132-5     Document Type: Article

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