Effect of realistic soil moisture initialization on the Canadian CanCM3 seasonal forecast model

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 466-474

  Drewitt, Gordon ^a   Berg, Aaron A ^a   Merryfield, William J ^b   Lee, Woo Sung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forecast; Initialization; Prediction; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84873026126     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2012.722910     Document Type: Article

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