Moisture recycling on the Canadian Prairies for summer droughts and pluvials from 1997 to 2003

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 13-26

  Raddatz, R L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric water balance; Evapotranspiration; Horizontal water vapour flux; Hydrologic cycle; Surface energy balance; Surface water balance

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRAIRIE; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER VAPOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22444450619     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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