ECOWAT-A model for ecosystem evapotranspiration estimation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1584-1596

  Spano, D ^a,d   Snyder, R L ^b   Sirca, C ^a   Duce, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Energy fluxes; Forest vegetation; Reference evapotranspiration; Soil water balance; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EDGE EFFECT; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUND COVER; MICROCLIMATE; SOIL WATER; WATER STRESS; WILDFIRE;

EID: 68049124792     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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