Inter-annual variability of moisture flux from the Prairie agro-ecosystem: Impact of crop phenology on the seasonal pattern of tornado days

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 283-295

  Raddatz, R L ^a   Cummine, J D ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary layer moisture; Crop modelling; Evapotranspiration; Land surface schemes; Surface moisture flux; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE;

MOISTURE FLUX;

TORNADOES;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MOISTURE FLUX; PHENOLOGY; PRAIRIE; TORNADO;

ECOSYSTEMS; MOISTURE; WHEAT;

CANADA;

EID: 0037316129     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021117925505     Document Type: Article

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