The Community Land Model and its climate statistics as a component of the Community Climate System Model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2302-2324

  Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Oleson, Keith W ^b   Bonan, Gordon ^b   Hoffman, Forrest ^c   Thornton, Peter ^b   Vertenstein, Mariana ^b   Yang, Zong Liang ^d   Zeng, Xubin ^e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RUNOFF; SPRINGS (WATER); STATISTICS; SUBLIMATION;

CLIMATE STATISTICS; GLOBAL LAND TEMPERATURE; SPRING RUNOFF;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; SAHARA; SAHEL [ERITREA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 31344460981     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3742.1     Document Type: Article

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