Radiative forcing over the conterminous United States due to contemporary land cover land use albedo change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Barnes, Christopher A ^a   Roy, David P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; ESTIMATION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MAPS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DATA SETS; ECOREGIONS; FORCINGS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRO-RADIOMETER; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; SURFACE ALBEDO; UNITED STATES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ECOREGION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODIS; RADIATIVE FORCING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48549091886     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033567     Document Type: Article

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