[PDF][PDF] The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed for climate models

AJ Pitman - International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the …, 2003 - spot.colorado.edu
The land surface is a key component of climate models. It controls the partitioning of
available energy at the surface between sensible and latent heat, and it controls the …

Toward snow cover estimation in mountainous areas using modern data assimilation methods: A review

C Largeron, M Dumont, S Morin, A Boone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The snow cover is a key component of land surface hydrology, especially in mountain areas
where it governs the amount and timing of water availability in downstream areas. It is …

Continental‐scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS‐2): 1 …

Y Xia, K Mitchell, M Ek, J Sheffield… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah‐MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local‐scale measurements

GY Niu, ZL Yang, KE Mitchell, F Chen… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This first paper of the two‐part series describes the objectives of the community efforts in
improving the Noah land surface model (LSM), documents, through mathematical …

The global land data assimilation system

M Rodell, PR Houser, UEA Jambor… - Bulletin of the …, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) has been developed. Its purpose is to
ingest satellite-and ground-based observational data products, using advanced land surface …

Implementation of Noah land surface model advances in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction operational mesoscale Eta model

MB Ek, KE Mitchell, Y Lin, E Rogers… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a 50-year high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling

J Sheffield, G Goteti, EF Wood - Journal of climate, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Development of a 50-Year High-Resolution Global Dataset of Meteorological Forcings for
Land Surface Modeling in: Journal of Climate Volume 19 Issue 13 (2006) Jump to Content …

[PDF][PDF] Climate models and their evaluation

DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman… - Climate change 2007 …, 2007 - pure.mpg.de
This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): Infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility

JJ Hamman, B Nijssen, TJ Bohn… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model is a macroscale semi-distributed hydrologic
model. VIC development began in the early 1990s and the model has since been used …

The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description–Part 1: energy and water fluxes

MJ Best, M Pryor, DB Clark, GG Rooney… - Geoscientific Model …, 2011 - gmd.copernicus.org
This manuscript describes the energy and water components of a new community land
surface model called the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES). This is developed …