The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2694-2714

  Fisher, Joshua B ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^a   Bonal, Damien ^b   Da Rocha, Humberto R ^c   De Araújo, Alessandro C ^d   Gamo, Minoru ^e   Goulden, Michael L ^f   Rano, Takashi Hi ^g   Huete, Alfredo R ^h   Kondo, Hiroaki ^e   Kumagai, Tomo'omi ⁱ   Loescher, Henry W ^j   Miller, Scott ^k   Nobre, Antonio D ^l   Nouvellon, Yann ^m   Oberbauer, Steven F ⁿ   Panuthai, Samreong ^o   Roupsard, Olivier ^m   Saleska, Scott ^p   Tanaka, Katsunori ^q   Tanaka, Nobuaki ^r   Tu, Kevin P ^s   Von Randow, Celso ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Campus Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^l INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^m CIRAD   (France)

ⁿ FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department   (Thailand)

^p University of Arizona   (United States)

^q JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Amazon; Eddy covariance; Evaporation; Evapotranspiration; ISLSCP II; LBA; Model; Remote sensing; Tropical

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION INDEX;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 74249103948     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01813.x     Document Type: Article

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