Calibration and validation of lake surface temperature simulations with the coupled WRF-lake model

Climatic Change

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 471-483

  Gu, Hongping ^a,b   Jin, Jiming ^b   Wu, Yihua ^c   Ek, Michael B ^c   Subin, Zachary M ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; COUPLED MODELING; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; LAKE SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; PHYSICALLY BASED; SENSITIVITY TESTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

LAKES;

EID: 84926278112     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0978-y     Document Type: Article

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