Variability in cold front activities modulating cool-season evaporation from a southern inland water in the USA

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Heping ^a   Blanken, Peter D ^b   Weidinger, Tamas ^c   Nordbo, Annika ^d   Vesala, Timo ^d  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

cold fronts; eddy covariance fluxes; lake reservoir evaporation; the surface energy budget

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960297202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024022     Document Type: Article

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