Modeling the effects of irrigation on land surface fluxes and states over the conterminous United States: Sensitivity to input data and model parameters

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 9789-9803

  Leng, Guoyong ^a,b,c   Huang, Maoyi ^b   Tang, Qiuhong ^a   Sacks, William J ^d   Lei, Huimin ^b,e   Leung, L Ruby ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CLM4; irrigation; uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLM4; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; IRRIGATION WATER USE; NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; UNCERTAINTIES;

IRRIGATION;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; FLUX MEASUREMENT; IRRIGATION; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886020393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50792     Document Type: Article

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