Evaluating model performance and parameter behavior for varying levels of land surface model complexity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Hogue, Terri S ^a   Bastidas, Luis A ^b   Gupta, Hoshin V ^c   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GLOBAL BIOMES; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SURFACE MODEL (LSM);

VEGETATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

BIOME; COMPLEXITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33749410854     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004440     Document Type: Article

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