Energy and water exchanges over a riparian Tamarix spp. stand in the lower Tarim River basin under a hyper-arid climate

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-154

  Yuan, Guofu ^a   Zhang, Pei ^b   Shao, Ming an ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Zhu, Xuchao ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Eddy covariance; Evapotranspiration; Hyper arid; Tamarix spp.; Tarim River; Water and energy exchange

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SOIL WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER EXCHANGE;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84899699275     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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