A long-term hydrologically based dataset of land surface fluxes and states for the conterminous United States: Update and extensions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9384-9392

  Livneh, Ben ^a   Rosenberg, Eric A ^b   Lin, Chiyu ^b   Nijssen, Bart ^b   Mishra, Vimal ^b,e   Andreadis, Kostas M ^c   Maurer, Edwin P ^d   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Santa Clara University   (United States)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR   (India)

Author keywords

Forcing; Hydrometeorology; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT; FORCING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE OBSERVATION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DISCHARGE; HEAT FLUX; HUMIDITY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER EXCHANGE; WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879080635     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00508.1     Document Type: Article

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