Climate impacts of making evapotranspiration in the Community Land Model (CLM3) consistent with the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB)

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 374-394

  Lawrence, Peter J ^a   Chase, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY EXCHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND COVER; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 67649460931     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM987.1     Document Type: Article

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