How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1751-1758

  Dobrowski, Solomon Z ^a   Abatzoglou, John T ^b   Greenberg, Jonathan A ^c   Schladow, S G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lake Tahoe; Lapse rate; Mountain climate; Physiography; Temperature modeling; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ECOHYDROLOGY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRAIN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

LAKE TAHOE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67949100355     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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