Validation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) retrospective forcing over the southern Great Plains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

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

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Office of Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface modeling; LDAS; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL VALIDATION; SURFACE FLUX;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1442312775     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003246     Document Type: Article

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