A case study for land model evaluation: Simulation of soil moisture amplitude damping and phase shift

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2002, Pages ACL-20-1-ACL-20-13

  Wu, Wanru ^a   Geller, Marvin A ^b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

0315 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Biosphere atmosphere interactions; 1833 Hydrology: Hydroclimatology; 1866 Hydrology: Soil moisture; 3210 Mathematical Geophysics: Modeling; Amplitude damping; Land surface model; Phase shift; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547470783     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001405     Document Type: Article

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