Observed changes in surface atmospheric energy over land

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Peterson, Thomas C ^a   Willett, Katharine M ^b   Thorne, Peter W ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENTHALPY; KINETIC ENERGY; LATENT HEAT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; ENERGY CONTENT; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENTHALPY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; KINETIC ENERGY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SURFACE ENERGY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80051962949     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048442     Document Type: Article

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