New insights in the capability of climate models to simulate the impact of LUC based on temperature decomposition of paired site observations

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5417-5436

  Vanden Broucke, Sam ^a   Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^b   Davin, Edouard L ^c   Janssens, Ivan ^d   van Lipzig, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DEFORESTATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT FLUX; LAND USE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84933278134     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023095     Document Type: Article

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