Surface heterogeneity and the spatial variation of fluxes

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 153-165

  Lyons, T J ^a,b   Halldin, S ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous surface; Sensible and latent heat fluxes; Structure function

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; HETEROGENEITY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0742305564     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2003.08.031     Document Type: Article

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