Evaluation of vegetation cover and land-surface albedo in MPI-ESM CMIP5 simulations

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-57

  Brovkin, V ^a   Boysen, L ^a   Raddatz, T ^a   Gayler, V ^a   Loew, A ^a   Claussen, M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

albedo; Earth system model; evaluation; vegetation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FORESTRY; SNOW; VEGETATION;

ALBEDO; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EVALUATION; FRACTIONAL DISTRIBUTION; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; LAND SURFACE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW COVER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATION COVER;

CORRELATION; EVALUATION; FORESTRY; MODELS; PLANTS; SNOW; SUN LIGHT;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

POACEAE;

EID: 84876710682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012MS000169     Document Type: Article

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