The World Climate Research Programme Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface
Parametrization Schemes (PILPS) is an on-going international intercomparison of land …

The scientific and human dimensions of global change have many overlapping themes
which offer a focus on processes occurring at the continental surface. Soil moisture is of …

Analogous to cloud formation, the formation and life cycle of fogs is largely influenced by
aerosol particles. The objective of this work is to analyze how changes in aerosol properties …

This report presents results of investigations of the influence of anthropogenic heat release
in Japanese megacity (Keihanshin district) upon the urban climate, using the energy …

Bullied, WJ, Van Acker, RC and Bullock, PR 2012. Review: Microsite characteristics
influencing weed seedling recruitment and implications for recruitment modeling. Can. J …

The next generation of weed seed germination models will need to account for variable soil
microclimate conditions. To predict this microclimate environment we have developed a …

Canopy microclimate is a critical component of most biophysical processes in plants.
Understanding the role of microclimate across scales in canopies with complex …

Challenges in understanding the aerosol–cloud interactions and their impacts on global
climate highlight the need for improved knowledge of the underlying physical processes and …

Beijing suffers from poor air quality, particularly during wintertime haze episodes when
concentrations of PM 2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter< 2.5 µ m) can peak at> 400 µ …

Soil texture can be heterogeneous; however for land surface-atmospheric modeling
purposes, it is often considered homogeneous at a particular point and described by …