Spatial variation of surface energy fluxes due to land use changes across China

Energies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2194-2206

  Ma, Enjun ^a   Deng, Xiangzheng ^b,c   Zhang, Qian ^d   Liu, Anping ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

China; Heat flux; Land use and land cover changes; WRF

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE; LATENT HEAT; RECLAMATION; REFORESTATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; LAND TRANSFORMATION; LAND USE AND COVER CHANGE; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84899147005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en7042194     Document Type: Article

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