Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 345-349

  Miralles, Diego G ^a,b   Teuling, Adriaan J ^c   Van Heerwaarden, Chiel C ^d   De Arellano, Jordi Vilà Guerau ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLOW; LAND SURFACE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84899694533     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2141     Document Type: Article

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