Evapotranspiration models compared on a Sierra Nevada forest ecosystem

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 783-796

  Fisher, Joshua B ^a   Debiase, Terry A ^a   Qi, Ye ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Goldstein, Allen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AmeriFlux; Biosphere atmosphere interactions; Evapotranspiration; FLUXNET; McNaughton Black; Penman; Penman Monteith; Priestley Taylor; Shuttleworth Wallace

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONS; MOISTURE; SOILS;

ENERGY FLUXES; FIELD CAPACITY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BALANCE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; SOIL; TRANSPIRATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10644262385     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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