Evaluation and transferability of the Noah land surface model in semiarid environments

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 68-84

  Hogue, Terri S ^a,b   Bastidas, Luis ^c   Gupta, Hoshin ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a,d   Mitchell, Ken ^e   Emmerich, William ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^f CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEMIARID REGION;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14944364692     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-402.1     Document Type: Article

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