Validation of noah-simulated soil temperature in the north american land data assimilation system phase 2

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 455-471

  Xia, Youlong ^a,b   Ek, Michael ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^c   Livneh, Ben ^d   Huang, Maoyi ^e   Wei, Helin ^a,b   Feng, Song ^f   Luo, Lifeng ^g   Meng, Jesse ^a,b   Wood, Eric ^c  

^a IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crop growth; Data assimilation; Ecological models; Land surface model; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

CROP GROWTH; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875015120     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-033.1     Document Type: Article

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