Closing the scale gap between land surface parameterizations and GCMs with a new scheme, SiB3-Bins

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 691-711

  Baker, I T ^a   Sellers, P J ^b   Denning, A S ^a   Medina, I ^a   Kraus, P ^a   Haynes, K D ^a   Biraud, S C ^c  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

evapotranspiration; soil moisture; subgrid variability

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HETEROGENEITY; LAND SURFACE; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; SATURATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 85016981584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000764     Document Type: Article

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