TY - JOUR
T1 - The versatile integrator of surface and atmosphere processes part 1. Model description
AU - Yang, Zong Liang
AU - Niu, Guo Yue
N1 - Funding Information:
The comments from two anonymous reviewers led to improvement of this paper. The authors would like to thank Dr. Marc Stieglitz for providing the Sleepers River data set, Laura Bowling and Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier for making the PILPS 2e data available, and Dr. Tilden Meyers for providing the crops data set. This work was funded by NASA grant NAG8-1520 and NSF grant ATM0095094.
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - This paper describes an integration of recent new developments in snow, runoff and vegetation growth into the National Center for Atmospheric Research Land Surface Model (NCAR LSM). The new model, referred to as the Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere processes (VISA), has been validated with observed data. The results have demonstrated that the NCAR LSM, after integrating with these new developments, produces improved simulations of snow and runoff over the baseline version, and has an added capability to simulate the dynamics of leaf area index (LAI). Moreover, VISA, through its integration of new schemes, is not only important for studying land-atmosphere interactions in its own right, but also useful for helping interpret results from a parallel modeling activity - the Community Land Model (CLM) project.
AB - This paper describes an integration of recent new developments in snow, runoff and vegetation growth into the National Center for Atmospheric Research Land Surface Model (NCAR LSM). The new model, referred to as the Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere processes (VISA), has been validated with observed data. The results have demonstrated that the NCAR LSM, after integrating with these new developments, produces improved simulations of snow and runoff over the baseline version, and has an added capability to simulate the dynamics of leaf area index (LAI). Moreover, VISA, through its integration of new schemes, is not only important for studying land-atmosphere interactions in its own right, but also useful for helping interpret results from a parallel modeling activity - the Community Land Model (CLM) project.
KW - Runoff
KW - Snow
KW - VISA
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U2 - 10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00028-6
DO - 10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00028-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038449107
SN - 0921-8181
VL - 38
SP - 175
EP - 189
JO - Global and Planetary Change
JF - Global and Planetary Change
IS - 1-2
ER -