Climate-driven uncertainties in modeling terrestrial energy and water fluxes: A site-level to global-scale analysis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1885-1900

  Barman, Rahul ^a   Jain, Atul K ^a   Liang, Miaoling ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeophysics; Biosphere; Energy cycle; FLUXNET; ISAM, land surface model; Latent heat; Sensible heat; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; CANOPY; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENERGY FLUX; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NET RADIATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84900009623     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12473     Document Type: Article

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