Asymmetric response of maximum and minimum temperatures to soil emissivity change over the Northern African Sahel in a GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Liming ^a,b   Dickinson, Robert ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul ^b   Chen, Haishan ^c   Dai, Yongjiu ^d   Tian, Yuhong ^e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE; DRY SEASON; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEMI-ARID REGIONS; SOIL EMISSIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EMISSIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EMISSION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; SAHEL [ERITREA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 43549111158     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032953     Document Type: Article

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