Leaf area index specification for use in mesoscale weather prediction systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3535-3550

  Knote, Christoph ^a   Bonafe, Giovanni ^b   Di Giuseppe, Francesca ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ARPA ServizioIdroMeteoClima   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; ENERGY BUDGETS; FORECAST MODEL; FORECAST TIME; FRACTIONAL AREA; HIGHER MOMENTS; HUMIDITY FORECASTS; ITALIAN PENINSULA; LEAF AREA INDEX; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; MESOSCALE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SCREEN TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SYNOPTIC OBSERVING; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME AND SPACE; TIME INVARIANTS; TWO PARAMETER; VEGETATION COVER; WEATHER PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERICS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIFICATIONS; SPECTROMETERS; VEGETATION; WATER CONTENT;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; ENERGY BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LEAF AREA INDEX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; VEGETATION COVER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449134382     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2891.1     Document Type: Article

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