Verification of land-atmosphere coupling in forecast models, reanalyses, and land surface models using flux site observations

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 375-392

  Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a   Chen, Liang ^a   Wu, Jiexia ^a   Shin, Chul Su ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a   Cash, Benjamin A ^a   Bosilovich, Michael G ^b   Mahanama, Sarith ^b   Koster, Randal D ^b   Santanello, Joseph A ^b   Ek, Michael B ^c   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^d   Dutra, Emanuel ^e   Lawrence, David M ^f  

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

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85042657580     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0152.1     Document Type: Article

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