TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief description of bare essentials of surface transfer and results from simulations with the HAPEX-MOBILHY data
AU - Pitman, A. J.
AU - Desborough, C. E.
PY - 1996/6
Y1 - 1996/6
N2 - The Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer (BEST) land surface scheme is briefly described and the key physical parameterisations discussed. Results are then presented to illustrate how the model performs, with foming data for HAPEX-MOBILHY, compared to a series of other schemes in the simulation of evaporation and sensible heat. The implications of the models performance, and some indications of the future development of the scheme are provided. The basic version of BEST was found to overestimate evaporation for the HAPEX-MOBILHY data, simulating 816 mm yr-1 compared to a range of 550 to 816 mm yr-1 for all models. A modification to the β parameterisation reduced the evaporation to 759 mm yr-1 which, although an improvement, is still probably too high.
AB - The Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer (BEST) land surface scheme is briefly described and the key physical parameterisations discussed. Results are then presented to illustrate how the model performs, with foming data for HAPEX-MOBILHY, compared to a series of other schemes in the simulation of evaporation and sensible heat. The implications of the models performance, and some indications of the future development of the scheme are provided. The basic version of BEST was found to overestimate evaporation for the HAPEX-MOBILHY data, simulating 816 mm yr-1 compared to a range of 550 to 816 mm yr-1 for all models. A modification to the β parameterisation reduced the evaporation to 759 mm yr-1 which, although an improvement, is still probably too high.
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U2 - 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00042-9
DO - 10.1016/0921-8181(95)00042-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030153351
SN - 0921-8181
VL - 13
SP - 135
EP - 143
JO - Global and Planetary Change
JF - Global and Planetary Change
IS - 1-4
ER -