A long-term simulation of surface fluxes and soil moisture

Conference · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:143520

Kim, J; Lee, R L ^[1]; Ek, M ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
2. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Dept. of Atmospheric Science

The heat fluxes over land surfaces play important roles in shaping atmospheric flows on various temporal and spatial scales. Fast and McCorcle showed that sea-breeze-like mesoscale circulations can develop over land surfaces of heterogeneous soil type and soil moisture. Evaporation from land surfaces is one of the major moisture sources for the summertime convective precipitation in extratropics. General circulation model studies also indicate that surface characteristics cause a significant impact on the simulated climate.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Inst. for Global Environmental Change, Davis, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 143520
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-114411; CONF-940115-24; ON: DE94006661
• Resource Relation: Conference: 8. Joint conference on applications of air pollution meterology. 74. American Meteorological Society annual meeting, Nashville, TN (United States), 23-28 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
99 MATHEMATICS
COMPUTERS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
MANAGEMENT
LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
SOILS
MOISTURE
TRANSPIRATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
EVAPORATION
HEAT FLUX