"Wet/dry Daisyworld": A conceptual tool for quantifying the spatial scaling of heterogeneous landscapes and its impact on the subgrid variability of energy fluxes

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-188

  Baldocchi, Dennis D ^a   Krebs, Theresa ^a,b   Leclerc, Monique Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALOG MODEL; ENERGY FLUX; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 21644437005     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2005.00149.x     Document Type: Article

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