Observational evidence for cloud cover enhancement over western European forests

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Teuling, Adriaan J ^a   Taylor, Christopher M ^b,c   Meirink, Jan Fokke ^d   Melsen, Lieke A ^a   Miralles, Diego G ^e,f   Van Heerwaarden, Chiel C ^a   Vautard, Robert ^g   Stegehuis, Annemiek I ^g   Nabuurs, Gert Jan ^a   De Arellano, Jordi Vilà Guerau ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c National Centre for Earth Observation   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CYCLONE; FOREST COVER; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MESOSCALE MOTION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATE FOREST; WINDTHROW;

ARTICLE; CLOUD; FOREST; HURRICANE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WESTERN EUROPE;

AQUITAINE; FRANCE; LANDES;

EID: 85009227402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14065     Document Type: Article

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