The land surface is a key component of climate models. It controls the partitioning of
available energy at the surface between sensible and latent heat, and it controls the …

The Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX) is an international project aimed at
developing enhanced techniques for the a priori estimation of parameters in hydrologic …

Results are presented from the second phase of the multiinstitution North American Land
Data Assimilation System (NLDAS‐2) research partnership. In NLDAS, the Noah, Variable …

SURFEX is a new externalized land and ocean surface platform that describes the surface
fluxes and the evolution of four types of surfaces: nature, town, inland water and ocean. It is …

This paper addresses and documents a number of issues related to the implementation of
an advanced land surface–hydrology model in the Penn State–NCAR fifth-generation …

We present the impact tests that preceded the most recent operational upgrades to the land
surface model used in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) mesoscale …

Results are presented from the multi‐institution partnership to develop a real‐time and
retrospective North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS). NLDAS consists of …

A new strategy for modeling the land surface component of the climate system is described.
The strategy is motivated by an arguable deficiency in most state‐of‐the‐art land surface …

Soil moisture is an important variable in the climate system. Understanding and predicting
variations of surface temperature, drought, and flood depend critically on knowledge of soil …

Recent improvements to the Hadley Centre climate model include the introduction of a new
land surface scheme called “MOSES”(Met Office Surface Exchange Scheme). MOSES is …