Interannual variability of evapotranspiration and vegetation productivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3275-3294

  Fatichi, Simone ^a   Ivanov, Valeriy Y ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

climate variability; energy budget; evapotranspiration; modeling; temporal scales; vegetation productivity

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENERGY BUDGETS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SCALE; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET;

CHLORIS;

EID: 84899035160     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015044     Document Type: Article

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