Contemporary "green" water flows: Simulations with a dynamic global vegetation and water balance model

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 30, Issue 6-7 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 334-338

  Gerten, Dieter ^a   Hoff, Holger ^b   Bondeau, Alberte ^a   Lucht, Wolfgang ^a   Smith, Pascalle ^c   Zaehle, Sönke ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Global water resources; LPJ model; Soil moisture; Transpiration; Water stress

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION;

ECOHYDROLOGY; GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES; GREEN WATER FLOW; LUND-POTSDAM-JENA (LPJ) MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BALANCE MODEL; WATER STRESS;

WATER RESOURCES;

SOIL WATER; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 24044512346     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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