Improved snow cover model in terrestrial ecosystem models over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 218-219, Issue , 2016, Pages 161-170

  Yuan, Wenping ^a   Xu, Wenfang ^a,b   Ma, Minna ^a,b   Chen, Shengyun ^a   Liu, Wenjie ^a   Cui, Lilun ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inversion; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Snow cover; SnowWind; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84951793510     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.12.004     Document Type: Article

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