Real-time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Cosgrove, Brian A ^a,b   Lohmann, Dag ^c   Mitchell, Kenneth E ^c   Houser, Paul R ^a   Wood, Eric F ^d   Schaake, John C ^e   Robock, Alan ^f   Marshall, Curtis ^g   Sheffield, Justin ^d   Duan, Qingyun ^e   Luo, Lifeng ^f   Higgins, R Wayne ^c   Pinker, Rachel T ^h   Tarpley, J Dan ⁱ   Meng, Jesse ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

ⁱ OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Forcing data; Land surface modeling; LDAS; LSM; NLDAS; North American Land Data Assimilation System

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1342288488     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003118     Document Type: Article

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