Snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere plays a crucial role in the Earth's hydrology and
surface energy balance, and modulates feedbacks that control variations of global climate …

Numerical models of Earth's climate system must consider the atmosphere and terrestrial
biosphere as a coupled system, with biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes …

Results are presented from the second phase of the multiinstitution North American Land
Data Assimilation System (NLDAS‐2) research partnership. In NLDAS, the Noah, Variable …

We present the impact tests that preceded the most recent operational upgrades to the land
surface model used in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) mesoscale …

An algorithm is being developed to map global snow cover using Earth Observing System
(EOS) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data beginning at launch …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

Remote sensing of nighttime lights has been shown as a good surrogate for estimating
population and economic activity at national and sub-national scales, using DMSP satellites …

Using the Boreal Ecosystem‐Atmosphere Study mesonet data, we show the annual cycle of
albedo for 1994 and 1995 at 10 sites; two over grass, one over an aspen forest, and an …

MODIS, the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer, will be launched in 1998 as
part of the first earth observing system (EOS) platform. Global maps of land surface …

This chapter assesses the processes in the climate system that are believed to contribute the
most to the uncertainties in current projections of greenhouse warming. Many of these …