Evaluation of snow albedo in land models for weather and climate studies

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 363-380

  Wang, Zhuo ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; CLIMATE STUDIES; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FOREST SITES; GLOBAL MODELS; IN-SITU DATA; LAND MODEL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SQUARE ROOTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MODIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953519662     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2134.1     Document Type: Article

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