Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) version le as coupled to the NCAR community climate model. Technical note. [NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)]

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:5733868

Dickinson, R E; Henderson-Sellers, A; Kennedy, P J

A comprehensive model of land-surface processes has been under development suitable for use with various National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) General Circulation Models (GCMs). Special emphasis has been given to describing properly the role of vegetation in modifying the surface moisture and energy budgets. The result of these efforts has been incorporated into a boundary package, referred to as the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS). The current frozen version, BATS1e is a piece of software about four thousand lines of code that runs as an offline version or coupled to the Community Climate Model (CCM).

• Research Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States). Scientific Computing Div.
• OSTI ID: 5733868
• Report Number(s): PB-94-106150/XAB; NCAR/TN--387+STR
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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