On the assessment of aridity with changes in atmospheric CO2

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 5450-5463

  Roderick, Michael L ^a,b,c   Greve, Peter ^d   Farquhar, Graham D ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^d ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

aridity; climate change; ecohydrology; potential evaporation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; GEOLOGY;

ARIDITY; ECO-HYDROLOGY; GEOSCIENCES; GLACIAL CYCLES; KEYPOINTS; MODEL OUTPUTS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; VAPOUR PRESSURE DEFICITS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARIDITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPORATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VAPOR PRESSURE;

EID: 84939467223     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017031     Document Type: Article

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