Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Yongqiang ^a   Peña Arancibia, Jorge L ^a   McVicar, Tim R ^a,b   Chiew, Francis H S ^a   Vaze, Jai ^a   Liu, Changming ^c   Lu, Xingjie ^a   Zheng, Hongxing ^a   Wang, Yingping ^a   Liu, Yi Y ^b   Miralles, Diego G ^d,e   Pan, Ming ^f  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f Princeton University   (United States)

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EID: 84954192481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19124     Document Type: Article

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