Improvement of water balance in land surface schemes by random cascade disaggregation of rainfall

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 681-695

  Lammering, Birger ^a   Dwyer, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canopy evaporation; Disaggregation; GCM; Land surface scheme; Random cascade process; Spatial rainfall; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DOWNSCALING; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL; SCALE EFFECT; THROUGHFALL; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 0034030788     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(200005)20:6<681::AID-JOC492>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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