Evaluating the performance of land surface Models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5468-5481

  Abramowitz, Gab ^a   Leuning, Ray ^b   Clark, Martyn ^c   Pitman, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FORECASTING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SUN; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; AIR TEMPERATURES; ANALYTICAL TOOLS; DEFAULT VALUES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; MODEL COMPLEXITIES; MODEL EVALUATIONS; NEW TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER SETS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES; POOR PERFORMANCES; SENSIBLE HEATS; SOIL TYPES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITIES; STATISTICAL MODELS;

FLUXES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MAP; MODELING; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349119929     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2378.1     Document Type: Article

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