Land-Cover and surface water change drive large albedo increases in south america

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Loarie, Scott R ^a   Lobell, David B ^b   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Field, Christopher B ^b  

^a Carnegie Institute for Science   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Land cover change; MODIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952370506     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI342.1     Document Type: Article

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