Performance of different soil model configurations in simulating ground surface temperature and surface fluxes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1870-1884

  Smirnova, Tatiana G ^a,b   Brown, John M ^a   Benjamin, Stanley G ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Coop Inst Res in Environ Sci ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0001062971     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1870:PODSMC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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