TY - JOUR
T1 - Getting GARP to grow grass
T2 - land surfaces in global climate models
AU - Henderson-Sellers, A.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - In this paper I review and preview land surfaces as they have been neglected, parametrised and incorporated into global climate models. From the standpoint of the present, 1990, the progress over the last twenty years has been impressive, changing the continental surface from a flat, bare reflector of solar radiation to a mosaic of homogeneous vegetation and soil "patches' the size of global model grids. I anticipate that the progress in the next twenty years will be at least as impressive and foresee an interactive land surface incorporated into global models by the end of the first decade of the next century. -Author
AB - In this paper I review and preview land surfaces as they have been neglected, parametrised and incorporated into global climate models. From the standpoint of the present, 1990, the progress over the last twenty years has been impressive, changing the continental surface from a flat, bare reflector of solar radiation to a mosaic of homogeneous vegetation and soil "patches' the size of global model grids. I anticipate that the progress in the next twenty years will be at least as impressive and foresee an interactive land surface incorporated into global models by the end of the first decade of the next century. -Author
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0025588107
SN - 0004-9743
VL - 38
SP - 245
EP - 254
JO - Australian Meteorological Magazine
JF - Australian Meteorological Magazine
IS - 4
ER -