Land surface initialization using an offline CLM3 simulation with the GSWP-2 forcing dataset and its impacton CAM3 simulations of the boreal summer climate

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1231-1248

  Jeong, Jee Hoon ^a,b   Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Chen, Deliang ^b   Park, Tae Won ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; LAND SURFACE; MODELING; SIMULATION; SUMMER;

EID: 65349185200     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM941.1     Document Type: Article

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