Improving snow processes in the Noah land model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Zhuo ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Decker, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RESISTANCE; MODEL STRUCTURES; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOREAL FORESTS; CANOPY RESISTANCE; FLUX COMPUTATION; FOREST SITES; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH LATITUDES; ITERATION NUMBERS; LAND MODEL; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MODEL PHYSICS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OPERATIONAL MODEL; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SHADING EFFECT; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

SNOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CANOPY; GRASSLAND; HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHADING; SNOW; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWMELT; SUBLIMATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NIWOT RIDGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049395515     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013761     Document Type: Article

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