Empirical models of monthly and annual albedo in managed boreal forests of interior Norway

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 183-196

  Bright, Ryan M ^a   Astrup, Rasmus ^b   Strømman, Anders H ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST INVENTORY; MANAGEMENT REGIME; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; REGRESSION MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

FORESTRY;

ALBEDO; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CLEARCUTTING; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HARVESTING; REMOTE SENSING;

FORECASTS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUN LIGHT;

NORWAY;

EID: 84881616014     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0789-1     Document Type: Article

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