Vegetation controls on surface heat flux partitioning, and land-atmosphere coupling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9416-9424

  Williams, Ian N ^a   Torn, Margaret S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

convective triggering; evaporative fraction; evapotranspiration; land atmosphere coupling; phenology; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LATENT HEAT; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CONVECTIVE TRIGGERING; EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; PHENOLOGY; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

HEAT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CORRELATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LEAF AREA INDEX; PARTITIONING; PHENOLOGY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84954541808     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066305     Document Type: Article

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