Towards a public, standardized, diagnostic benchmarking system for land surface models

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 819-827

  Abramowitz, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84880893313     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-5-819-2012     Document Type: Article

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