DYPTOP: A cost-efficient TOPMODEL implementation to simulate sub-grid spatio-temporal dynamics of global wetlands and peatlands

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3089-3110

  Stocker, B D ^a,b   Spahni, R ^a   Joos, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; PEATLAND; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WETLAND;

EID: 84908009919     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-3089-2014     Document Type: Article

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