Monitoring and modeling the terrestrial system from pores to catchments: The transregional collaborative research center on patterns in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1765-1787

  Simmer, Clemens ^a,b   Thiele Eich, Insa ^a   Masbou, Matttthieu ^c   Amelung, Wulf ^a   Bogena, Heye ^d   Crewell, Susanne ^e   Diekkrüger, Bernd ^a   Ewert, Frank ^a   Hendricks Franssen, Harrie Jan ^d   Huisman, Johan Alexander ^d   Kemna, Andreas ^a   Klitzsch, Norbert ^f   Kollet, Stefan ^d   Langensiepen, Matthias ^a   Löhnert, Ulrich ^e   Rahman, A S M Mostaquimur ^a   Rascher, Uwe ^d   Schneider, Karl ^e   Schween, Jan ^e   Shao, Yaping ^e   Shrestha, Prabhakar ^a   Stiebler, Maik ^g   Sulis, Mauro ^a   Vanderborght, Jan ^d   Vereecken, Harry ^d   Van Der Kruk, Jan ^d   Waldhoff, Guido ^e   Zerenner, Tanja ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Geoverbund ABC J   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING; MULTI-COMPARTMENT MODELS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; SOIL VEGETATION ATMOSPHERES; STOCHASTIC TECHNIQUES; TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 84946072783     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00134.1     Document Type: Article

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