Contribution of water-limited ecoregions to their own supply of rainfall

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Miralles, Diego G ^a,b   Nieto, Raquel ^c   McDowell, Nathan G ^d   Dorigo, Wouter A ^b,e   Verhoest, Niko E C ^b   Liu, Yi Y ^f,g   Teuling, Adriaan J ^h   Dolman, A Johannes ^a   Good, Stephen P ⁱ   Gimeno, Luis ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evaporation; global ecohydrology; landatmospheric feedbacks; precipitation recycling, drought; vegetation optical depth; water limited regions

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RAIN; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; ECO-HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION RECYCLING; REGIONAL MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TRAJECTORY MODELLING; VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH; WATER-LIMITED REGIONS;

WATER RECYCLING;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CARBON; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOREGION; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MOISTURE CONTENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TRANSPIRATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER STRESS;

AUSTRALIA; KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 85008163197     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124007     Document Type: Article

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