Seasonal and diurnal variations in moisture, heat and  CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes over a typical steppe prairie in Inner Mongolia, China

Gao, Z.; Lenschow, D. H.; He, Z.; Zhou, M.

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Seasonal and diurnal variations in moisture, heat and CO₂ fluxes over a typical steppe prairie in Inner Mongolia, China

Z. Gao, D. H. Lenschow, Z. He, and M. Zhou

Z. Gao

State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China

D. H. Lenschow

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder CO, USA

Z. He

State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China

M. Zhou

Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China

State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, China

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