Northern Hemisphere atmospheric stilling partly attributed to an increase in surface roughness

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 756-761

  Vautard, Robert ^a   Cattiaux, Julien ^a   Yiou, Pascal ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^b   Ciais, Philippe ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; LAND USE CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CZECH REPUBLIC; NETHERLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049463083     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo979     Document Type: Article

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