On the use of field measurements of energy fluxes to evaluate land surface models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 214, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 293-304

  El Maayar, Mustapha ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a   Price, David T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy closure; Energy fluxes; Field measurements; Land surface models

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; LATENT HEAT; MASS TRANSFER;

EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY CLOSURE; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MODEL VALIDATION; PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ENERGY BALANCE;

EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; FIELD METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 43049162664     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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