Efficient parallelization of a dynamic global vegetation model with river routing

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 685-690

  von Bloh, W ^a   Rost, S ^a   Gerten, D ^a   Lucht, W ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; DGVM; Hydrological model; Parallel computing; River routing; Vegetation model

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; VEGETATION MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALGORITHM; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RIVER CHANNEL; TOPOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 76749171206     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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