The diurnal behavior of evaporative fraction in the soil-vegetation-atmospheric boundary layer continuum

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1530-1546

  Gentine, Pierre ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b   Polcher, Jan ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Diurnal effects; Evaporation; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Turbulence; Vegetation atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; ENTRAINMENT; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84858185072     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JHM1261.1     Document Type: Article

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