Climate forcing and response to idealized changes in surface latent and sensible heat

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ban Weiss, George A ^a,c   Bala, Govindasamy ^b   Cao, Long ^a   Pongratz, Julia ^a   Caldeira, Ken ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowen ratio; climate change; evaporative cooling; evapotranspiration; latent heat

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053500102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034032     Document Type: Article

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