Production of a combined land surface data set and its use to assess land-atmosphere coupling in China

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 948-965

  Li, Mingxing ^a   Ma, Zhuguo ^a   Gu, Hongping ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Zheng, Ziyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 85011290930     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025511     Document Type: Article

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