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Design of a global soil moisture initialization procedure for the simple biosphere model
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Sud, Y. C. Walker, G. K. Liston, G. E. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | Global soil moisture and land-surface evapotranspiration fields are computed using an analysis scheme based on the Simple Biosphere (SiB) soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction model. The scheme is driven with observed precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration, where the potential evapotranspiration is computed following the surface air temperature-potential evapotranspiration regression of Thomthwaite (1948). The observed surface air temperature is corrected to reflect potential (zero soil moisture stress) conditions by letting the ratio of actual transpiration to potential transpiration be a function of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). Soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and runoff data are generated on a daily basis for a 10-year period, January 1979 through December 1988, using observed precipitation gridded at a 4 deg by 5 deg resolution. |
| File Size | 7578859 |
| Page Count | 144 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940006468 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5r83899k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Drainage Atmospheric Temperature Vegetative Index Soil Moisture Atmospheric General Circulation Experiment Evapotranspiration Vegetation Environment Models Surface Temperature Biosphere Precipitation Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |