Observationally based analysis of land-atmosphere coupling

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 251-266

  Catalano, Franco ^a   Alessandri, Andrea ^a   De Felice, Matteo ^a   Zhu, Zaichun ^b,c   Myneni, Ranga B ^d  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Center for Applications of Spatial Information Technologies in Public Health   (China)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; VEGETATION; VOLCANOES;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; LAND-ATMOSPHERE COUPLINGS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STRONGLY CONNECTED; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

COUPLING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84960954711     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-251-2016     Document Type: Article

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