Development of a 50-year high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3088-3111

  Sheffield, Justin ^a   Goteti, Gopi ^b   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; STATISTICS; WIND;

HYDROLOGIC CYCLE; METEOROLOGICAL FORCINGS; SURFACE FLUXES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

EID: 33746906726     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3790.1     Document Type: Article

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