Enhancing the representation of subgrid land surface characteristics in land surface models

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1609-1622

  Ke, Y ^a,b   Leung, L R ^b   Huang, M ^b   Li, H ^b  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIMULATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84885819319     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-1609-2013     Document Type: Article

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