Observational study of land-surface-cloud-atmosphere coupling on daily timescales

Our aim is to provide an observational reference for the evaluation of the surface and boundary layer parameterizations used in large-scale models using the remarkable long-term Canadian Prairie hourly dataset. First we use shortwave and longwave data from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSR...

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Main Authors: Alan K Betts, Raymond eDesjardins, Anton C.M Beljaars, Ahmed eTawfik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2015.00013/full