Exploring the relationship between complexity and performance in a land surface model using the multicriteria method

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages ACL-11-1-ACL-11-12

  Leplastrier, M ^a   Pitman, A J ^a   Gupta, H ^b   Xia, Y ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

1818 Hydrology: Evapotranspiration; 1878 Hydrology: Water energy interactions; 3322 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Land atmosphere interactions; Calibration; Complexity; Land surface; Multicriteria; PILPS

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RUNOFF;

CALIBRATION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; LAND SURFACE; RUNOFF;

EID: 36448969011     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000931     Document Type: Article

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