HESS Opinions "a perspective on isotope versus non-isotope approaches to determine the contribution of transpiration to total evaporation"

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2815-2827

  Sutanto, S J ^a,b   Van Den Hurk, B ^a,c   Dirmeyer, P A ^d   Seneviratne, S I ^e   Rockmann T ^a   Trenberth, K E ^f   Blyth, E M ^g   Wenninger, J ^h,i   Hoffmann, G ^a,j  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Public Works Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^h DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^j LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EVAPORATION; ISOTOPES; PARAMETERIZATION;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS;

TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 84905455065     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-2815-2014     Document Type: Article

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