Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 2. Validation of model-simulated streamflow

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xia, Youlong ^a,b   Mitchell, Kenneth ^a   Ek, Michael ^a   Cosgrove, Brian ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^c   Luo, Lifeng ^d   Alonge, Charles ^e   Wei, Helin ^a,b   Meng, Jesse ^a,b   Livneh, Ben ^f   Duan, Qingyun ^g   Lohmann, Dag ^h  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AWS Truewind LLC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

ANALYSIS RESULTS; ANNUAL RUNOFF; ENERGY FLUXES; IN-PHASE; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT PHASE; STATE VARIABLES; TIME-SCALES; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIC MODEL; WATER AND ENERGIES; WATER FLUX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BASIN; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY FLUX; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; INFILTRATION; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; WATER EXCHANGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85057921393     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016051     Document Type: Article

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