Abstract Models of landscape change may serve a variety of purposes, from exploring the
interaction of natural processes to evaluating proposed management treatments. These …

Forest change and climatic variability are two major drivers for influencing change in
watershed hydrology in forest–dominated watersheds. Quantifying their relative …

The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from
Phase 1 in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 49 Issue 6 (2010) …

Soil information is now widely required by many climate and hydrology models and soil–
vegetation–atmosphere transfer schemes. This paper describes the development of a …

Vegetation provides a major source of reactive carbon entering the atmosphere. These
compounds play an important role in (1) sha** global tropospheric chemistry,(2) regional …

Recent research has shown that the combination of spectral vegetation indices with thermal
infrared observations may provide an effective method for parameterizing surface processes …

A new version of the ECMWF land surface parameterization scheme is described. It has four
prognostic layers in the soil for temperature and soil moisture, with a free drainage and a …

Tropical deforestation, by changing land surfaces, may have important consequences for the
climate system. Predicting even the local, immediate effects of replacing tropical broadleaf …

The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) is
described and the first stage science plan outlined. PILPS is a project designed to improve …

Although the development of soil, vegetation, and atmosphere interaction models has been
driven primarily by the need for accurate simulations of long-term energy and moisture …