Plant- and soil-parameter-caused uncertainty of predicted surface fluxes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3498-3516

  Mölders, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ARCTIC NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; HYDRO-THERMODYNAMIC SOIL-VEGETATION SCHEME; SIMULATED SURFACE FLUXES; SOIL PARAMETERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

HEAT FLUX; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SURFACE FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 31344467987     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3046.1     Document Type: Article

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