How much do different land models matter for climate simulation? Part I: Climatology and variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3120-3134

  Wei, Jiangfeng ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Guo, Zhichang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Misra, Vasubandhu ^b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DRY SEASONS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; HIGH LATITUDES; LAND MODEL; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; SEMI-ARID REGION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME STEP;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SEMIARID REGION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953044503     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3177.1     Document Type: Article

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