Evaluating error propagation in coupled land-atmosphere models

Earth Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Pijanowski, Bryan ^a   Moore, Nathan ^b   Mauree, Dasaraden ^c   Niyogi, Dev ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error propagation; Land surface temperature; Land use and land cover change; Latent heat flux; Precipitation; Regional climate models; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857010180     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011EI380.1     Document Type: Article

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