Enhancement of land surface information and its impact on atmospheric modeling in the Heihe River Basin, northwest China

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Gao, Yanhong ^a   Chen, Fei ^b   Barlage, Michael ^b   Liu, Wei ^c   Cheng, Guodong ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Yu, Ye ^a   Ran, Youhua ^a   Li, Haiying ^a   Peng, Hongchun ^a   Ma, Mingguo ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Lanzhou Air Traffic Management Center CAAC ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA SET; GIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING BIAS; SOIL TEXTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 58149218159     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010359     Document Type: Article

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