An empirical approach to retrieving monthly evapotranspiration over Amazonia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7045-7063

  Negron Juarez, R I ^a   Goulden, M L ^b   Myneni, R B ^c   Fu, R ^a   Bernardes, S ^d   Gao, H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTER-ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET;

RADIOMETERS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATION BUDGET; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION INDEX;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 56349092963     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802226026     Document Type: Article

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