Noah-GEM and Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) based downscaling of global reanalysis surface fields: Evaluations using observations from a CarboEurope agricultural site

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 86, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-74

  Charusombat, Umarporn ^a   Niyogi, Dev ^a   Garrigues, Sébastien ^b   Olioso, Albert ^b   Marloie, Olivier ^b   Barlage, Michael ^c   Chen, Fei ^c   Ek, Michael ^d   Wang, Xuemei ^e   Wu, Zhiyong ^e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UAPV   (France)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CarboEurope; Fluxnet; Land Data assimilation system; Latent heat flux; Noah; Noah GEM

Indexed keywords

CARBOEUROPE; FLUXNET; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; NOAH; NOAH-GEM;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EXPERIMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LEAF AREA INDEX; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SORGHUM; WHEAT;

AVIGNON; FRANCE; GREAT PLAINS; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAUCLUSE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84863463349     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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