Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Peichl, Matthias ^a   Sagerfors, Jörgen ^a   Lindroth, Anders ^b   Buffam, Ishi ^a,c   Grelle, Achim ^a   Klemedtsson, Leif ^d   Laudon, Hjalmar ^a   Nilsson, Mats B ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

boreal landscape; climate; eddy covariance technique; energy fluxes; peatland; water cycle

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOWEN RATIO; ENERGY FLUX; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; MIRE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER BUDGET;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84880105114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JG002073     Document Type: Article

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