Emergent relation between surface vapor conductance and relative humidity profiles yields evaporation rates from weather data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6287-6291

  Salvucci, Guido D ^a   Gentine, Pierre ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE; CONDUCTANCE; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW; HUMIDITY; LAND BIOME; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREAM (RIVER); VAPOR; WEATHER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMIDITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SOIL; STEAM; WEATHER;

EID: 84876218635     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215844110     Document Type: Article

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