Is land surface processes representation a possible weak link in current Regional Climate Models?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Davin, Edouard L ^a   Maisonnave, Eric ^b   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

COSMO CLM2; EURO CORDEX; land processes; land surface model; Regional climate model

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; COSMO-CLM2; EURO-CORDEX; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUX;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84980349952     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074027     Document Type: Article

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