Acceleration of land surface model development over a decade of glass

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1593-1600

  Van Den Hurk, Bart ^a   Best, Martin ^b   Dirmeyer, Paul ^c   Pitman, Andy ^d   Polcher, Jan ^e   Santanello, Joe ^f  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CRITICAL GOAL; DATA SETS; FULLY-COUPLED; LAND SURFACE MODELS; POINT-BASED; PROJECT PHASE; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; SOIL WETNESS; SYSTEM STUDY; VEGETATION RESPONSE;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLASS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84855778091     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00007.1     Document Type: Review

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