Seasonal and interannual variations in water vapor exchange and surface water balance over a grazed steppe in central Mongolia

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 857-864

  Liu, S ^a,b   Li, S G ^a   Yu, G R ^a   Asanuma, J ^c   Sugita, M ^c   Zhang, L M ^a   Hu, Z M ^a   Wei, Y F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Mongolian steppe; Water budget

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE METHOD; EFFECT OF WATER; GROWING SEASON; MONGOLIA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PEAK VALUES; PLANT GROWTH; PREVIOUS YEAR; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STUDY SITES; SURFACE CONDUCTANCE; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT; WATER BUDGET; WATER-VAPOR EXCHANGE;

BUDGET CONTROL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS; UNDERWATER SOILS; VEGETATION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER VAPOR;

EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAZING; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STEPPE; SURFACE WATER; WATER BUDGET; WATER VAPOR;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 77949269049     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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