Cross-scale impact of climate temporal variability on ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1716-1740

  Paschalis, Athanasios ^a,b   Fatichi, Simone ^b   Katul, Gabriel G ^a,c   Ivanov, Valeriy Y ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

cross scale interactions; ecohydrological modeling; ecosystem response; interannual variability; short scale temporal climate variability; spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER EXCHANGE;

EID: 84945468356     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003002     Document Type: Article

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