Impact of USGS vegetation map on GCM simulations over the United States

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 22-33

  Fennessy, M J ^a   Xue, Y ^a  

^a Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric general circulation model; Biosphere modeling; General Circulation Model (GCM) systematic errors; Monthly and seasonal precipitation; Simple Biosphere Model (SiB) vegetation map; U.S. Geological Survey vegetation map; Vegetation impact; Vegetation parameters

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOSPHERE; GCM; MODEL; VEGETATION IMPACT; VEGETATION MAP; VEGETATION PARAMETERS;

USA;

EID: 0030614215     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0022:IOUVMO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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