Land surface albedo and vegetation feedbacks enhanced the millennium drought in south-east Australia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 409-422

  Evans, Jason P ^a   Meng, Xianhong ^b   McCabe, Matthew F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; MILLENNIUM DROUGHTS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; VEGETATION FRACTIONS;

DROUGHT;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85010338573     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-409-2017     Document Type: Article

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