Intraseasonal interactions between temperature and vegetation over the boreal forests

Earth Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1-30

  Wang, Weile ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b   Huang, Dong ^a   Su, Yin ^a   Kaufmann, Robert K ^a   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Land atmosphere interaction; Modeling; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FORESTRY; MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT; LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SECOND-ORDER SYSTEMSS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; THERMAL BALANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955964959     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI219.1     Document Type: Article

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