Energy balance closure for the LITFASS-2003 experiment

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-160

  Foken, Thomas ^a   Mauder, Matthias ^a,b   Liebethal, Claudia ^a,c   Wimmer, Florian ^a,d   Beyrich, Frank ^e   Leps, Jens Peter ^e   Raasch, Siegfried ^f   DeBruin, Henk A R ^g,h   Meijninger, Wouter M L ^g,i   Bange, Jens ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c E Fellowsnet GmbH and Co   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h Water Watch ^*  (Netherlands)

ⁱ WaterWatch   (Netherlands)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; HETEROGENEITY; MOISTURE; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VEGETATION;

EID: 77953807774     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0216-8     Document Type: Article

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