Using a horizontal precipitation model to investigate the role of turbulent cloud deposition in survival ofa seasonal cloud forest in Dhofar

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Hildebrandt, Anke ^a   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; CLOUD FOREST; DEPOSITION; FOREST CANOPY; LAND DEGRADATION; MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN; ZUFAR;

BOS;

EID: 61749085287     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JG000727     Document Type: Article

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