Quantifying Water and Energy Fluxes Over Different Urban Land Covers in Phoenix, Arizona

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 2111-2128

  Templeton, Nicole P ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^a,b   Wang, Zhi Hua ^a   Schreiner McGraw, Adam P ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eddy covariance; evapotranspiration; irrigation; land cover; turbulent fluxes; urban energy balance

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BOUNDARY LAYER; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASS; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NEIGHBORHOOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE ENERGY; URBAN AREA;

ARIZONA; PHOENIX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85043388105     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027845     Document Type: Article

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