Updated evaluation of exergy and emergy driving the geobiosphere: A review and refinement of the emergy baseline

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2501-2508

  Brown, Mark T ^a   Ulgiati, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Available energy; Emergy; Emergy baseline; Exergy; Geobiosphere

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE ENERGY; ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE; EMERGY; EMERGY BASELINE; EMERGY EVALUATION; GEOBIOSPHERE; GLOBAL DATA; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS;

EXERGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TIDAL POWER;

BIOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; EMERGY; EXERGY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 77956184775     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.06.027     Document Type: Article

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