A comprehensive set of benchmark tests for a land surface model of simultaneous fluxes of water and carbon at both the global and seasonal scale

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-269

  Blyth, E ^a   Clark, D B ^a   Ellis, R ^a   Huntingford, C ^a   Los, S ^b   Pryor, M ^c   Best, M ^c   Sitch, S ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; BIOME; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; RIVER FLOW; WATER FLOW;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79955903849     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-4-255-2011     Document Type: Article

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