The GEWEX LandFlux project: Evaluation of model evaporation using tower-based and globally gridded forcing data

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 283-305

  McCabe, M F ^a   Ershadi, A ^a   Jimenez, C ^b   Miralles, D G ^c   Michel, D ^d   Wood, E F ^e  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Estellus ^*  (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY COVARIANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 84956694930     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-283-2016     Document Type: Article

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