Global land moisture trends: Drier in dry and wetter in wet over land

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Feng, Huihui ^a,b   Zhang, Mingyang ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84949665696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18018     Document Type: Article

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