Evaluation of the Noah land surface model using data from a fair-weather IHOP_2002 day with heterogeneous surface fluxes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4915-4941

  LeMone, Margaret A ^a   Tewari, Mukul ^a   Chen, Fei ^a   Alfieri, Joseph G ^b   Niyogi, Dev ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SKIES; COEFFICIENT C; DEFAULT VALUES; FLIGHT TRACKS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HORIZONTAL VARIABILITIES; HORIZONTAL VARIATIONS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LEAST SQUARES; MODEL AND OBSERVATIONS; MOIST SOILS; NEAR SURFACES; OBSERVATIONAL DATUM; OBSERVED DATUM; OKLAHOMA; OPEN WATERS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDES; ROUGHNESS LENGTHS; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; STRAIGHT LINES; SURFACE PROCESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME-AVERAGED; UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING KING AIRS; VEGETATION FRACTIONS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURES; WET SOILS;

CURVE FITTING; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 64149095786     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2354.1     Document Type: Article

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