Sensible heat flux estimated from one-level air temperature near the land surface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Fitzmaurice, Jean ^a   Wang, Jingfeng ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; HEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; LAND SURFACE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

EID: 3042781556     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018452     Document Type: Article

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