Author: Zhenglin Hu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity on Land-atmosphere Interactions
The Effect of Land Surface Heterogeneity on Land-atmosphere Interactions
Author: Christa Dianne Peters-Lidard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundary layer (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Land Surface — Atmosphere Interactions for Climate Modeling
Author: E.F. Wood
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400921551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
It is well known that the interactions between land surfaces and the atmosphere, and the resulting exchanges in water and energy have a tremendous affect on climate. The inadequate representation of land-atmosphere interactions is a major weakness in current climate models, and is providing the motivation for the HAPEX and ISLSCP experiments as well as the proposed Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) and the Earth Observing System (EOS) mission. The inadequate representation reflects the recognition that the well-known phys ical relationships, which are well described at small scales, result in different relationships when represented at the scales used in climate models. Understanding this transition in the mathematical relationships with increased space-time scales appears to be very difficult, and has led to different approaches; at one extreme, the famous "bucket" model where the land-surface is a simple one layer storage without vegetation; the other extreme may be Seller's Simple Biosphere Model (Sib) where one big leaf covers the climate model grid. Given the heterogeneous nature of landforms, soils and vegetation within a climate model grid, the development of new land surface parameterizations, and their verification through large scale experiments is perceived to be a challenging area of research for the hydrology and meteorology communities. This book evolved from a workshop held at Princeton University to explore the status of land surface parameterizations within climate models, and how observa tional data can be used to assess these parameterizations and improve models.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400921551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
It is well known that the interactions between land surfaces and the atmosphere, and the resulting exchanges in water and energy have a tremendous affect on climate. The inadequate representation of land-atmosphere interactions is a major weakness in current climate models, and is providing the motivation for the HAPEX and ISLSCP experiments as well as the proposed Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) and the Earth Observing System (EOS) mission. The inadequate representation reflects the recognition that the well-known phys ical relationships, which are well described at small scales, result in different relationships when represented at the scales used in climate models. Understanding this transition in the mathematical relationships with increased space-time scales appears to be very difficult, and has led to different approaches; at one extreme, the famous "bucket" model where the land-surface is a simple one layer storage without vegetation; the other extreme may be Seller's Simple Biosphere Model (Sib) where one big leaf covers the climate model grid. Given the heterogeneous nature of landforms, soils and vegetation within a climate model grid, the development of new land surface parameterizations, and their verification through large scale experiments is perceived to be a challenging area of research for the hydrology and meteorology communities. This book evolved from a workshop held at Princeton University to explore the status of land surface parameterizations within climate models, and how observa tional data can be used to assess these parameterizations and improve models.
Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling
Author: Gordon Bonan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043786
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Provides an essential introduction to modeling terrestrial ecosystems in Earth system models for graduate students and researchers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043786
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Provides an essential introduction to modeling terrestrial ecosystems in Earth system models for graduate students and researchers.
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land--Atmosphere Interactions
Author: 0 Pampaloni
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000941299
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation. Furthermore, the spatial resolution of passive microwave observations matches the special scales of large-scale models of land-atmosphere interactions both for data assimilation and validation. In order to stimulate and focus this research a workshop, sponsored by ESA and NASA, was organized to review the state-of-the-art in microwave radiometry related to land applications and to exchange ideas leading into new directions for future research. This volume contains the refereed papers from the aforementioned ESA/NASA workshop, which are arranged by topic, as well as the (edited) working group reports.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000941299
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation. Furthermore, the spatial resolution of passive microwave observations matches the special scales of large-scale models of land-atmosphere interactions both for data assimilation and validation. In order to stimulate and focus this research a workshop, sponsored by ESA and NASA, was organized to review the state-of-the-art in microwave radiometry related to land applications and to exchange ideas leading into new directions for future research. This volume contains the refereed papers from the aforementioned ESA/NASA workshop, which are arranged by topic, as well as the (edited) working group reports.
Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes
Author: Gary M. Lovett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387240918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This groundbreaking work connects the knowledge of system function developed in ecosystem ecology with landscape ecology's knowledge of spatial structure. The book elucidates the challenges faced by ecosystem scientists working in spatially heterogeneous systems, relevant conceptual approaches used in other disciplines and in different ecosystem types, and the importance of spatial heterogeneity in conservation resource management.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387240918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This groundbreaking work connects the knowledge of system function developed in ecosystem ecology with landscape ecology's knowledge of spatial structure. The book elucidates the challenges faced by ecosystem scientists working in spatially heterogeneous systems, relevant conceptual approaches used in other disciplines and in different ecosystem types, and the importance of spatial heterogeneity in conservation resource management.
Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin
Author: Laszlo Nagy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662499029
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to the understanding of the dynamic biophysical and societal/socio-economic structure and functioning of Amazonia as a regional entity and its regional and global climatic teleconnections. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers seeking to untangle the gamut of interactions that the Amazon’s complex biophysical and social system represent.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662499029
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This book offers a panorama of recent scientific achievements produced through the framework of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere programme (LBA) and other research programmes in the Brazilian Amazon. The content is highly interdisciplinary, with an overarching aim to contribute to the understanding of the dynamic biophysical and societal/socio-economic structure and functioning of Amazonia as a regional entity and its regional and global climatic teleconnections. The target readership includes advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers seeking to untangle the gamut of interactions that the Amazon’s complex biophysical and social system represent.
Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity in Soil
The Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface
Author: Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric temperature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric temperature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Interactions Between Land Surface and Climate
Author: Bo Huang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832519431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832519431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description