Quantifying land surface temperature variability for two sahelian mesoscale regions during the wet season

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1605-1619

  De Kauwe, Martin G ^a   Taylor, Christopher M ^b   Harris, Philip P ^b   Weedon, Graham P ^c   Ellis, Richard J ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST; GRASSLAND; LAND SURFACE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PIXEL; SEMIARID REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84885920808     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0141.1     Document Type: Article

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