A clumped-foliage canopy radiative transfer model for a global dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model. I: Theory

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 881-894

  Ni Meister, Wenge ^a   Yang, Wenze ^a   Kiang, Nancy Y ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy radiative transfer; Clumping; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOLIAGE; HETEROGENEITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION;

EID: 77954816188     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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