Evapotranspiration partitioning with stable isotopes for ecohydrological studies

Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 99-116

  Tarin, Tonantzin ^a   Yépez, Enrico A ^a   Garatuza Payán, Jaime ^a   Watts, Christopher J ^b   Rodríguez, Julio C ^b   Vivoni, Enrique R ^c   Méndez Barroso, Luis A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Keeling graphs; Sonora; Transpiration; Turbulent correlation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SEMIARID REGION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; TURBULENCE; WATER EXCHANGE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA;

EID: 84901023173     PISSN: 01878336     EISSN: 20072422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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