Assessing parameter importance of the Common Land Model based on qualitative and quantitative sensitivity analysis

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3279-3293

  Li, J ^a   Duan, Q Y ^a   Gong, W ^a   Ye, A ^a   Dai, Y ^a   Miao, C ^a   Di, Z ^a   Tong, C ^b   Sun, Y ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; ESTIMATING PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; PARAMETER INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; QUANTITATIVE SENSITIVITY; SOBOL' SENSITIVITY METHODS;

ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NET RADIATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883140876     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-3279-2013     Document Type: Article

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