Climate, canopy conductance and leaf area development controls on evapotranspiration in a boreal coniferous forest over a 10-year period: A united model assessment

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1626-1638

  Ge, Zhen Ming ^a,b   Zhou, Xiao ^a   Kellomäki, Seppo ^a   Peltola, Heli ^a   Wang, Kai Yun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boreal pine forest; Climate variability; Evapotranspiration components; Integrated model; LAI; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTEGRATED MODEL; LAI; PINE FOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE; SUN; WATER SUPPLY; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; CANOPY EXCHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERCEPTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSPIRATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PLANTS; SIMULATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER VAPOR;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79953315137     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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