Noah LSM snow model diagnostics and enhancements

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 721-738

  Livneh, Ben ^a   Xia, Youlong ^b   Mitchell, Kenneth E ^b   Ek, Michael B ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MODELING; NOAA SATELLITE; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955475067     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1174.1     Document Type: Article

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