Sensitivity of the NCEP/Noah land surface model to the MODIS green vegetation fraction data set

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Miller, Jesse ^a,d   Barlage, Michael ^a,d   Zeng, Xubin ^a,d   Wei, Helin ^b   Mitchell, Kenneth ^b   Tarpley, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACES; VEGETATION;

GREEN VEGETATION FRACTION (GVF); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); TRANSPIRATION RATE; VEGETATION CLASSES;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

DATA SET; LAND SURFACE; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; SURFACE ENERGY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 33845629713     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026636     Document Type: Article

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