The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1705-1723

  Haughton, Ned ^a   Abramowitz, Gab ^a   Pitman, Andy J ^a   Or, Dani ^b   Best, Martin J ^c   Johnson, Helen R ^c   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^d   Boone, Aaron ^e   Cuntz, Matthias ^f   Decharme, Bertrand ^e   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^g   Dong, Jairui ^h   Ek, Michael ^h   Guo, Zichang ^g   Haverd, Vanessa ⁱ   van den Hurk, Bart J J ^j   Nearing, Grey S ^k   Pak, Bernard ⁱ   Santanello, Joe A ^k   Stevens, Lauren E ⁱ   Vuichard, Nicolas ^l   more..

^a ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^k NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^l DIF   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA QUALITY; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84976904400     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0171.1     Document Type: Article

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