Evapotranspiration dynamics in a boreal peatland and its impact on the water and energy balance

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Jiabing ^a,b   Kutzbach, Lars ^a,c   Jager, Daniel ^a   Wille, Christian ^a,c   Wilmking, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PEATLAND; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; WATER BUDGET;

FINLAND;

EID: 78650587097     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JG001075     Document Type: Article

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