The BASE land surface model

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 19, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 3-18

  Desborough, Carl E ^a   Pitman, Andrew J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Bisophere; Climate; Hydrology; Numerical models

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0031740983     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00038-1     Document Type: Article

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