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Books, Chapters, and Monographs (Refereed)

Brun, E., Z.-L. Yang, R. Essery, and J. Cohen, 2008: Snow-cover parameterization and modeling, inSnow and Climate, Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, 125-180.

Yang, Z.-L., 2004: Modeling land surface processes in short-term weather and climate studies, inObservations, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Variability, (ed. X. Zhu), World Scientific Series on Meteorology of East Asia, Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore, 288-313. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., 2008: Description of recent snow models, in Snow and Climate, Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, 129-136. [Snow Modelers Internet Platform]

Articles Published in Refereed Journals and Technical Notes

2015

Xu, Z.-F., R. Mahmood, Z.-L. Yang, C. B. Fu, and H. Su, 2015: Investigating diurnal and seasonal climatic response to land use and land cover change over monsoon Asia with the Community Earth System Model (CESM), J. Geophys. Res.–Atmospheres, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022479.

Barlage, M., M. Tewari, F. Chen, G. Miguez-Macho, Z.-L. Yang, and G. Niu, 2015: The effect of groundwater interaction in North American regional climate simulations with WRF/Noah-MP, Climatic Change, doi: 10.1007/s10584-014-1308-8.

Z.-L. Yang, 2015: Foreword to the special issue: regional earth system modeling, Climatic Change, doi: 10.1007/s10584-015-1365-7.

2014

Chen, F., M. Barlage, M. Tewari, R. Rasmussen, J. Jin, D. Lettenmaier, B. Livneh, C. Lin, G. Miguez-Macho, G.-Y. Niu, L. Wen, and Z.-L. Yang, 2014: Modeling seasonal snowpack evolution in the complex terrain and forested Colorado Headwaters region: A model intercomparison study, J. Geophys. Res. –Atmospheres, 119, doi: 10.1002/2014JD022167.

Parajuli, S. P.*, Z.-L. Yang, and G. Kocurek, 2014: Mapping erodibility in dust source regions based on geomorphology, meteorology, and remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 119, DOI: 10.1002/2014JF003095.

Jin, Q.-J.*, J.-F. Wei, and Z.-L. Yang, 2014: Positive response of Indian summer rainfall to Middle East dust, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 4068–4074.

Su, H., Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, and J.-F. Wei, 2013: Spring soil moistue–precipitation feedback in the Southern Great Plains: How is it related to large-scale atmospheric conditions, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 1283–1289.

Zhang, Y.-F.*, T. J. Hoar, Z.-L. Yang, J. L. Anderson, A. M. Toure, and M. Rodell, 2014: Assimilation of MODIS snow cover through the Data Assimilaton Research Testbed and the Community Land Model version 4, J. Geophys. Res – Atmospheres., 119, 7091–7103.

Cai, X.-T.*, Z.-L. Yang, C. H. David, G.-Y. Niu, and M. Rodell, 2014: Hydrological evaluation of the Noah-MP land surface model for the Mississippi River Basin, J. Geophys. Res – Atmospheres, 119, 23–38.

Cai, X.-T.*, Z.-L. Yang, Y. L. Xia, M. Y. Huang, H. L. Wei, L. R. Leung, and M. B. Ek, 2014: Assessment of simulated water balance from Noah, Noah-MP, CLM, and VIC over CONUS using the NLDAS test bed, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 13,751–13,770, doi:10.1002/2014JD022113.

Zhao, L., K. Yang, J. Qin, Y. Chen, W. Tang, H. Lu, and Z.-L. Yang, 2014: The scale-dependence of SMOS soil moisture accuracy and its improvement through land data assimilation in the central Tibetan Plateau, Remote Sensing of Environment, 152, 345–355.

Christoffersen, B. O. , N. Restrepo-Coupe, M. A. Arain, I. T. Baker, B. P. Cestaro, P. Ciais, J. B. Fisher, D. Galbraith, X. Guan*, L. Gulden*, B. van den Hurk, K. Ichii, H. Imbuzeiro, A. Jain, N. Levine, G. Miguez-Macho, B. Poulter, D. R. Roberti, K. Sakaguchi, A. Sahoo, K. Schaefer, M. Shi*, H. Verbeeck,Z.-L. Yang, A. C. Araujo, B. Kruijt, A. O. Manzi, H. R. da Rocha, C. von Randow, M. N. Muza, J. Borak, M. H. Costa, L. G. de Goncalves, X. Zeng, and S. R. Saleska, 2014: Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 191, 33–50.

2013

David, C. H., Z.-L. Yang, and S. Hong, 2013: Regional-scale river flow modeling using off-the-shelf runoff products, thousands of mapped rivers and hundreds of stream flow gauges, Environmental Modelling & Software, 42, 116–132. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.12.011.

David, C. H., Z.-L. Yang, and J. S. Famiglietti, 2013: Quantification of the upstream-to-downstream influence in the Muskingum method, and implications for speedup in parallel computations of river flow, Water Resources Research, 49, 1–18, DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20250.

Shi, M. J.*, Z.-L. Yang, D. M. Lawrence, R. E. Dickinson, and Z. M. Subin, 2013: Spin-up processes in the community land model version 4 with explicit carbon and nitrogen components, Ecological Modelling, 263, 308–325, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.04.008.

Shi, M. J.*, Z.-L. Yang, and F. W. Landerer, 2013: Representing and evaluating the landscape freeze/thaw properties and their impacts on soil impermeability–hydrological processes in the community land model version 4. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, DOI:10.1002/jgrd.50576.

Smith, V. B.*, C. H. David, M. B. Cardenas, and Z.-L. Yang, 2013: Climate, river network, and vegetation cover relationships across a climate gradient and their potential for predicting effects of decadal-scale climate change, Journal of Hydrology, 488, 101–109, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.050.

2012

Jiang, X.Y.* and Z.-L. Yang, 2012: Projected changes of temperature and precipitation in Texas from downscaled global climate models, Climate Research, 53, 229-244, doi: 10.3354/cr01093. [pdf]

Xu, Z.-F. and Z.-L. Yang, 2012: An improved dynamical downscaling method with GCM bias corrections and its validation with 30 years of climate simulations, J. Climate, 25, 6271-6286. [http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00005.1]

Xu, Y.S. and Z.-L. Yang, 2012: A method to study the impact of climate change on variability of river flow: an example from the Guadalupe River in Texas, Climatic Change, 113, 965-979, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0366-4. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/15031kg511100031/]

2011

David, C. H.*, F. Habets, and D. R. Maidment, Z.-L. Yang, 2011: RAPID applied to the SIM-France model, Hydrological Processes, 25, 3412-3425.[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.8070/abstract]

David, C. H.*, D. R. Maidment, G. Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, F. Habets and V. Eijkhout, 2011: River network routing on the NHDPlus dataset, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12, 913-934, doi: 10.1175/2011JHM1345.1 [http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2011JHM1345.1 pdf]

Gent, P. R., G. Danabasoglu, L. Donner, M. M. Holland, E. C. Hunke, S. R. Jayne, D. M. Lawrence, R. B. Neale, P. J. Rasch, M. Vertenstein, P. H. Worley, Z.-L. Yang, and M. Zhang, 2011: The Community Climate System Model Version 4. J. Climate, 24, 4973-4991, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1. [http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1]

Lawrence, D. M., K. W. Oleson, M. G. Flanner, P. E. Thornton, S. C. Swenson, P. J. Lawrence, X. Zeng,Z.-L. Yang, S. Levis, K. Sakaguchi, G. B. Bonan, and A. G. Slater, 2011: Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in version 4 of the Community Land Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 3, DOI: 10.1029/2011MS000045. (27 pages) [pdf]

Massei, N., B. Laignel, E. Rosero, A. Motelay-Massei, J. Deloffre, Z.-L. Yang, and A. Rossi, 2011: A wavelet approach to the short-term to pluri-decennal variability of streamflow in the Mississippi river basin from 1934 to 1998, International Journal of Climatology, 31, 31-43, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1995. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, K. E. Mitchell, F. Chen, M. B. Ek, M. Barlage, A. Kumar, K. Manning, D. Niyogi, E. Rosero*, M. Tewari, and Y.-L. Xia, 2011: The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local-scale measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D12109, doi:10.1029/2010JD015139. [pdf]

Rosero, E.*, L. E. Gulden*, Z.-L. Yang, L. G. de Goncalves, G.-Y. Niu, and Y. H. Kaheil, 2011: Ensemble evaluation of hydrologically enhanced Noah-LSM: Partitioning of the water balance in high-resolution simulations over the Little Washita River Experimental Watershed, J. Hydrometeorology, 12, 45-64.[pdf]

Su, H.*, Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and C. R. Wilson, 2011: Parameter estimation in ensemble based snow data assimilation: A Synthetic study, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 407-416. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., G.-Y. Niu, K. E. Mitchell, F. Chen, M. B. Ek, M. Barlage, L. Longuevergne, K. Manning, D. Niyogi, M. Tewari, and Y.-L. Xia, 2011: The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah-MP): 2. Evaluation over global river basins, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D12110, doi:10.1029/2010JD015140. [pdf]

2010

Banner, J. L., C. S. Jackson, Z.-L. Yang, K. Hayhoe, C. Woodhouse, L. Gulden*, K. Jacobs, G. North, R. Leung, and W. Washington, X. Jiang*, R. Casteel, 2010: Climate change impacts on Texas water: A white paper assessment of the past, present and future and recommendations for action. Texas Water Journal, 1 (1), 1–19. [pdf]

Chen, J. L., C. R. Wilson, B. D. Tapley, L. Longuevergne, Z. L. Yang, and B. R. Scanlon, 2010: Recent La Plata basin drought conditions observed by satellite gravimetry, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D22108,doi:10.1029/2010JD014689. (12 pages) [pdf]

Jiang, X.Y.*, Z.-L. Yang, H. Liao, and C. Wiedinmyer, 2010: Sensitivity of biogenic secondary organic aerosols to future climate change at regional scales: An online coupled simulation, Atmospheric Environment, 44, 4891-4907, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.08.032. [pdf]

Su, H.*, Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, C. R. Wilson, and G.-Y. Niu, 2010: Multisensor snow data assimilation at the continental scale: The value of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment terrestrial water storage information, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D10104, DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013035. (14 pages) [pdf]

Oleson, K. W., Lawrence. D. M., Bonan, G. B., Flanner, M. G., Kluzek, E., Lawrence, P. J., Levis, S., Swenson, S. C., Thornton, P. E., et.al. (including Z.-L. Yang), 2010: Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM). NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-478+STR, 257 pp. [pdf]

Rosero, E.*, Z.-L. Yang, T. Wagener, L. E. Gulden*, S. Yatheendradas, and G.-Y. Niu, 2010: Quantifying parameter sensitivity, interaction, and transferability in hydrologically enhanced versions of the Noah land surface model over transition zones during the warm season, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D03106, doi:10.1029/2009JD012035. (21 pages) [pdf]

2009

Chen, J. L., C. R. Wilson, B. D. Tapley , Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, 2009: 2005 drought event in the Amazon River basin as measured by GRACE and estimated by climate models, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B05404, doi:10.1029/2008JB006056. (9 pages) [pdf]

David, C. H.*, D. J. Gochis, D. R. Maidment, W. Yu, D. N. Yates, and Z.-L. Yang, 2009a: Using NHDPlus as the Land Base for the Noah-distributed model, Transactions in GIS, 13(4), 363-377, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01169.x. [pdf]

Jiang, X.*, G.-Y. Niu, and Z.-L. Yang, 2009: Impacts of vegetation and groundwater dynamics on warm season precipitation over the Central United States, J. Geophys. Res.,114, D06109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010756. (15 pages) [pdf]

Rosero, E.*, Z.-L. Yang, L. E. Gulden, G.-Y. Niu, and D. J. Gochis, 2009: Evaluating enhanced hydrological representations in Noah-LSM over transition zones: Implications for model development, J. Hydrometeorology, 10, 600-622. DOI:10.1175/2009JHM1029.1 [pdf]

Zhang, X. P., X. Y. Wang, Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and Z. C. Xie, 2009: Simulation of seasonal variations of stable water isotopes in land surface process model CLM, Chinese Science Bulletin, 54 (10), 1765-1772.

Zhang, X. P., Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and X.-Y. Wang, 2009: Stable water isotope simulation in different reservoirs of Manaus, Brazil, by Community Land Model incorporating stable isotopic effect, International Journal of Climatology, 29 (5), 619-628. [pdf]

2008

Gulden, L.E.*, Z.-L. Yang, and G.-Y. Niu, 2008: Sensitivity of biogenic emissions simulated by a land-surface model to land-cover representations, Atmospheric Environment, 42, 4185-4197. [pdf]

Gulden, L.E.*, E. Rosero*, Z.-L. Yang, T. Wagener, and G.-Y. Niu, 2008: Model performance, model robustness, and model fitness scores: A new method for identifying good land-surface models,Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L11404, doi:10.1029/2008GL033721. (7 pages) [pdf]

Jiang, X.*, C. Wiedinmyer, F. Chen, Z.-L. Yang, and J. C.-F. Lo, 2008: Predicted impacts of climate and land use change on surface ozone in the Houston, Texas, area, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20312, doi:10.1029/2008JD009820. (16 pages) [pdf]

Lo, J. C.-F., Z.-L. Yang, and R. Pielke Sr., 2008: Assessment of dynamical climate downscaling methods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D09112, doi:10.1029/2007JD009216. (16 pages) [pdf]

Lowrey, M. R. K.* and Z.-L. Yang, 2008: Assessing the capability of a regional-scale weather model to simulate extreme precipitation patterns and flooding in Central Texas, Weather and Forecasting,23, 1102–1126. [pdf]

Oleson, K. W., G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, D. M. Lawrence, P. E. Thornton, P. J. Lawrence, R. Stöckli, R. E. Dickinson, G. B. Bonan, S. Levis, A. Dai, and T. Qian, 2008: Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G01021, doi:10.1029/2007JG000563. (26 pages) [pdf]

Stöckli, R., D. M. Lawrence, G.-Y. Niu, K. W. Oleson, P. E. Thornton, Z.-L. Yang, G. B. Bonan, A. S. Denning, and S. W. Running, 2008: Use of FLUXNET in the Community Land Model development, J. Geophys. Res.,113, G01025, doi:10.1029/2007JG000562. (19 pages) [pdf]

Su, H.*, Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and R. E. Dickinson, 2008: Enhancing the estimation of continental-scale snow water equivalent by assimilating MODIS snow cover with the ensemble Kalman filter, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D08120, doi:10.1029/2007JD009232. (12 pages)[pdf]

Yuan, X., Z. Xie, J. Zheng, X. Tian, and Z.-L. Yang, 2008: Effects of water table dynamics on regional climate: A case study over east Asian monsoon area, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D21112, doi:10.1029/2008JD010180. (16 pages) [pdf]

2007

Gulden, L. E.*, E. Rosero*, Z.-L. Yang, M. Rodell, C.S. Jackson, G.-Y. Niu, P. J.-F. Yeh, and J. Famiglietti, 2007: Improving land-surface model hydrology: Is an explicit aquifer model better than a deeper soil profile? Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09402, doi:10.1029/2007GL029804. (5 pages) [pdf] [AGU JournalEditor’s Highlight]

Gulden, L. E.*, Z.-L. Yang, and G.-Y. Niu, 2007: Interannual variation in biogenic emissions on a regional scale, J. Geophys. Res., 112 (D14), D14103, 10.1029/2006JD008231. (12 pages) [pdf]

Li, W. H., R. E. Dickinson, R. Fu, G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, and J. G. Canadell, 2007: Future precipitation changes and their implications for tropical peatlands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01403, doi:10.1029/2006GL028364. (6 pages) [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., and Z.-L. Yang, 2007: An observation-based formulation of snow cover fraction and its evaluation over large North American river basins, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D21101, doi:10.1029/2007JD008674. (14 pages) [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., K.-W. Seo, Z.-L. Yang, C. Wilson, H. Su, J.L. Chen, and M. Rodell, 2007: Retrieving snow mass from GRACE terrestrial water storage change with a land surface model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L15704, doi:10.1029/2007GL030413. (5 pages) [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, L. E. Gulden, and H. Su, 2007: Development of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D07103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007522. (14 pages)[pdf]

2006

Dickinson, R.E., K.W. Oleson, G.B. Bonan, F. Hoffman, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein, Z.-L. Yang, and X. Zeng, 2006: The Community Land Model and its climate statistics as a component of the Community Climate System Model,Journal of Climate, 19 (11), 2302–2324. [pdf]

Fassnacht, S.R., Z.-L. Yang, K.R. Snelgrove, E.D. Soulis, and N. Kouwen, 2006: Effects of averaging and separating soil moisture and temperature in the presence of snow-cover in a SVAT and hydrological model for a southern Ontario, Canada, watershed, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7, 298-304. [pdf]

Gulden, L.E.* and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Development of species-based, regional emission capacities for simulation of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in land-surface models: An example from Texas, USA, Atmospheric Environment, 40(8), 1464-1479. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Assessing a land surface model’s improvements with GRACE estimates, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L07401, doi:10.1029/2005GL025555. (4 pages) [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Effects of frozen soil on snowmelt runoff and soil water storage at a continental scale, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7 (5), 937-952. [pdf]

2005

Knebl, M. R.*, Z.-L. Yang, K. Hutchison, and D.R. Maidment, 2005: Regional scale flood modeling using NEXRAD rainfall, GIS, and HEC-HMS/RAS: A case study for the San Antonio River Basin summer 2002 storm event, Journal of Environmental Management, 75, 325-336. [pdf]

Xia, Y., Z.-L. Yang, P.L. Stoffa, and M.K. Sen, 2005a: Optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model: Sensitivity to parameter ranges and model complexities, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 22 (1), 142-157. [pdf]

Xia, Y., Z.-L. Yang, P.L. Stoffa, and M.K. Sen, 2005b: Using different hydrologic variables to assess the impacts of forcing errors on optimization and uncertainty analysis of a land surface model at a cold catchment, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D01101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005130.
(15 pages) [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R.E. Dickinson, and L.E. Gulden, 2005: A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global climate models, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D21106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006111. (15 pages) [pdf]

2004

Boone A., F. Habets, J. Noilhan, D. Clark, P. Dirmeyer, S. Fox, Y. Gusev, I. Haddeland, R. Koster, D. Lohmann, S. Mahanama, K. Mitchell, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, A. Pitman, J. Polcher, A. B. Shmakin, K. Tanaka, B. Van Den Hurk, S. Verant, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, and Z.-Y. Yang, 2004: The Rhone-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview.Journal of Climate, 17, 187-208. [pdf]

Etchevers, P., E. Martin, R. Brown, C. Fierz, Y. Lejeune, E. Bazile, A. Boone, Y. Dai, R. Essery, A. Fernandez, Y. Gusev, R. Jordan, V. Koren, E. Kowalcyzk, N.O. Nasonova, R.D. Pyles, A. Schlosser, A.B. Shmakin, T.G. Smirnova, U. Strasser, D. Verseghy, T. Yamazaki, Z.-L. Yang, 2004: Validation of the energy budget of an alpine snowpack simulated by several snow models (SnowMIP project),Annals of Glaciology, 38, 150-158.

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2004: The effects of canopy processes on snow surface energy and mass balances, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D23111, doi:10.1029/2004JD004884. (15 pages) [pdf]

Oleson, K.W., Y. Dai, G. Bonan, M. Bosilovich, R. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, F. Hoffman, P. Houser, S. Levis, G.-Y. Niu, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein, Z.-L. Yang, and X. Zeng, 2004: Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM), NCAR/TN-461+STR, 174 p. [Available atwww.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/clm/distribution/clm3.0/index.html]

Xia, Y., Z.-L. Yang, C. Jackson, P.L. Stoffa, and M.K. Sen, 2004: Impacts of data length on optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D07101, doi:10.1029/2003JD004419. (13 pages) [pdf]

2003

Bowling, L.C., D.P. Lettenmaier, B. Nijssen, P.L. Graham, D. Clark, M.E. Maayar, R. Essery, S. Goers, F. Habets, B. van der Hurk, J. Jin, D. Kahan, D. Lohmann, S. Mahanama, D. Mocko, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, P. Samuelsson, A.B. Shmakin, K. Takata, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, X. Ma, Y. Xue, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2e. 1: Experimental description and summary intercomparisons,Global and Planetary Change, 38, 1-30. [pdf]

Dai, Y., X. Zeng, R.E. Dickinson, I. Baker, G.B. Bonan, M.G. Bosilovich, A.S. Denning, P.A. Dirmeyer, P.R. Houser, G.-Y. Niu, K.W. Oleson, C.A. Schlosser, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: The Common Land Model, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84 (8), 1013-1023. [pdf]

*Gochis, D.J., W.J. Shuttleworth, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Hydrometeorological response of the modeled North American monsoon to convective parameterization, J. Hydrometeor., 4, 235-250. [pdf]

Luo, Lifeng, A. Robock, K. Y. Vinnikov, C. A. Schlosser, A. G. Slater, A. Boone, H. Braden, P. Cox, P. de Rosnay, R. E. Dickinson, Y. Dai, Q. Duan, P. Etchevers, A. Henderson-Sellers, N. Gedney, Y. M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, E. Kowalczyk, K. Mitchell, O. N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, A. J. Pitman, J. Schaake, A. B. Shmakin, T. G. Smirnova, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L.Yang, and Q.-C. Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 334-351. [pdf]

Nijssen, B., L.C. Bowling, D.P. Lettenmaier, D. Clark, M.E. Maayar, R. Essery, S. Goers, F. Habets, B. van der Hurk, J. Jin, D. Kahan, D. Lohmann, S. Mahanama, D. Mocko, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, P. Samuelsson, A.B. Shmakin, K. Takata, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, X. Ma, Y. Xia, Y. Xue, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Simulation of high latitude hydrological processes in the Torne-Kalix basin: PILPS Phase 2e. 2: Comparison of model results with observations, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 31-53. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: The Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere processes (VISA) Part II: Evaluation of three topography-based runoff schemes, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 191-208. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L. and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere Processes (VISA) Part 1: Model description, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 175-189. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis, W.J. Shuttleworth, and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The impacts of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study,Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1033, 10.1029/2002GL015628. (4 pages) [pdf]

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, Z.-L. Yang, C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, A. Strahler, R.B. Myneni, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2003: Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model,Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D15), 4488, doi:10.1029/2002JD003326. (20 pages) [pdf]

LEAD Publications

Regional and Global Climate Modeling
Land-Surface Processes
North American Monsoon
Global Water Cycles
Application of Remote Sensing to Climate Change Studies
Snow Modeling
Flood Modeling
Field Observations / Modeling
Parameter Estimation / Model Calibration
Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes

(* Denotes student first author)

Regional and Global Climate Modeling

Yang, Z.-L. (contributor), 1996: Climate Models – Evaluation, In “Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”, Edited by J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K. Maskell. Cambridge University Press, pp. 229-284.

Yang, Z.-L., 1995: Investigating impacts of anomalous land-surface conditions on Australian climate with an advanced land-surface model coupled with the BMRC AGCM, Int. J. Climatol., 15, 137-174.

Yang, Z.-L., A.J. Pitman, B. McAvaney and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1995: The impact of implementing the bare essentials of surface transfer land surface scheme into the BMRC GCM, Climate Dynamics, 11,
279-297. [abstract]

Arain, M.A., E.J. Burke, Z.-L. Yang and W.J. Shuttleworth, 1999: Implementing surface parameter aggregation rules in the CCM3 global climate model: regional responses at the land surface, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 3 (4), 463-476. [pdf]

Bonan, G.B., K.W. Oleson, M. Vertenstein, S. Levis, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, R.E. Dickinson, and Z.-L. Yang, 2002: The land surface climatology of the Community Land Model coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model, J. Climate, 15 (22): 3123-3149. [pdf]

Burke, E.J., W. J. Shuttleworth, Z.-L. Yang, S. L. Mullen, and M. A. Arain, 2000: The impact of the parameterization of heterogeneous vegetation on the modeled large-scale circulation in CCM3-BATS, Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (3), 397-400. [pdf]

Dickinson, R.E., K.W. Oleson, G.B. Bonan, F. Hoffman, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein,Z.-L. Yang, and X. Zeng, 2006: The Community Land Model and its climate statistics as a component of the Community Climate System Model, Journal of Climate . Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 2302–2324. [pdf]

*Jiang, X., C. Wiedinmyer, F. Chen, Z.-L. Yang, and J. C.-F. Lo, 2008: Predicted impacts of climate and land use change on surface ozone in the Houston, Texas, area, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20312, doi:10.1029/2008JD009820. (16 pages) [pdf]

*Jiang, X., G.-Y. Niu, and Z.-L. Yang, 2009: Impacts of vegetation and groundwater dynamics on warm season precipitation over the Central United States, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010756. (15 pages) [pdf]

*Jiang, X.Y., Z.-L. Yang, H. Liao, and C. Wiedinmyer, 2010: Sensitivity of biogenic secondary organic aerosols to future climate change at regional scales: An online coupled simulation, Atmospheric Environment, 44, 4891-4907, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.08.032. [pdf]

Lo, J. C. F., Z.-L. Yang, and R. Pielke Sr., 2008: Assessment of Dynamical Climate Downscaling Methodologies Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D09112, doi:10.1029/2007JD009216. [pdf]

Martin, M., R.E. Dickinson, and Z.-L. Yang, 1999: Use of a coupled land surface general circulation model to examine the impacts of doubled stomatal resistance on the water resources of the American Southwest, Journal of Climate, 12, 3359-3375. [pdf]

Pitman, A.J., A. Henderson-Sellers and Z.-L. Yang, 1990: Sensitivity of regional climates to localised precipitation in global models, Nature, 346, 374-737. [pdf]

Pitman, A.J., Z.-L. Yang and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1993: Sub-grid-scale precipitation in AGCMs: re-assessing the land surface sensitivity using a single column model, Climate Dynamics, 9, 33-41.

Sen, O.L., L.A. Bastidas, W.J. Shuttleworth, Z.-L. Yang, H.V. Gupta, and S. Sorooshian, 2001: Impact of field-calibrated vegetation parameters on GCM climate simulations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 127 (574), Part B, 1199-1223.

Land-Surface Processes

Yang, Z.-L. and R.E. Dickinson, 1996: Description of the biosphere-atmosphere transfer scheme (BATS) for the Soil Moisture Workshop and evaluation of its performance, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 117-134. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The versatile integrator of surface and atmosphere processes (VISA) Part I: Model description, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 175-189. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., Y. Dai, R.E. Dickinson, W.J. Shuttleworth, 1999: Sensitivity of ground heat flux to vegetation cover fraction and leaf area index, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D16), 19505-19514. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Henderson-Sellers and A.J. Pitman, 1995: Preliminary study of spin-up processes in land surface models with the first stage data of Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes Phase 1(a), J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D8), 16,553-16,578. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Robock and K.Y. Vinnikov, 1997: Validation of the snow sub-model of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian snow cover and meteorological observational data,Journal of Climate, 10, 353-373. [pdf]

*Gulden, L. E., Z.-L. Yang, and G.-Y. Niu, 2007: Interannual variation in biogenic emissions on a regional scale, J. Geophys. Res., 112 (D14), D14103, 10.1029/2006JD008231. [pdf]

*Gulden, L.E., Z.-L. Yang, and G.-Y. Niu, 2008: Sensitivity of biogenic emissions simulated by a land-surface model to land-cover representations, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.01.045. pp. 4185-4197.[pdf]

*Gulden, L.E. and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Development of species-based, regional emission capacities for simulation of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in land-surface models: An example from Texas, USA, Atmospheric Environment, 40(8), 1464-1479. [pdf]

*Gulden, L.E., E. Rosero, Z.-L. Yang, M. Rodell, C.S. Jackson, G.-Y. Niu, P. J.-F. Yeh, and J. Famiglietti, 2007: Improving land-surface model hydrology: Is an explicit aquifer model better than a deeper soil profile?Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09402, doi:10.1029/2007GL029804. [pdf] [AGU Journal Editor’s Highlight]

Niu, G.-Y., and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: The versatile integrator of surface and atmosphere processes (VISA) Part II: Evaluation of three topography-based runoff schemes, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 191-208. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2004: The effects of canopy processes on snow surface energy and mass balances, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D23111, doi:10.1029/2004JD004884. [pdf]

Pitman, A.J., Z.-L. Yang, J.G. Cogley and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1991: Description of Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer for the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre AGCM, BMRC Research Report No. 32, 127 pp. [pdf]

Stöckli, R., D. M. Lawrence, G.-Y. Niu, K. W. Oleson, P. E. Thornton, Z.-L. Yang, G. B. Bonan, A. S. Denning, and S. W. Running, 2008: The use of Fluxnet in the Community Land Model development, J. Geophys. Res.,113, G01025, doi:10.1029/2007JG000562. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., G.-Y. Niu, R.E. Dickinson and M. Stieglitz, 2000: Parameterization of Runoff Production in Common Land Model, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting, Supplement, Vol. 81, No. 19, 2000, page S139.

North American Monsoon

Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis, W.J. Shuttleworth, and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The impacts of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(2), 1033, 10.1029/2002GL015628. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis and W.J. Shuttleworth, 2001: Evaluation of the simulations of the North American monsoon in the NCAR CCM3, Geophysical Research Letters, 28(7), 1211-1214. [pdf]

Gochis, D.J., W.J. Shuttleworth, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: Hydrometeorological response of the modeled North American monsoon to convective parameterization, J. Hydrometeor., 4, 235-250. [pdf]

Gochis, D.J., W.J. Shuttleworth, and Z.-L. Yang, 2002: Sensitivity of the modeled North American Monsoon regional climate to convective parameterization, Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1282-1298. [pdf]

Global Water Cycles

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Assessing a land surface model’s improvements with GRACE estimates,Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L07401, doi:10.1029/2005GL025555. [pdf]

Application of Remote Sensing to Climate Change Studies

Arain, A.M., W.J. Shuttleworth, Z.-L. Yang, J. Michaud and A.J. Dolman, 1997: Mapping surface-cover parameters using aggregation rules and remotely sensed cover classes, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 123, 2325-2348.

Shuttleworth, W.J., Z.-L. Yang and A.M. Arain, 1997: Aggregation rules for surface parameters in global models,Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2, 217-226. [pdf]

*Su, H., Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, C. R. Wilson, and G.-Y. Niu, 2010: Multisensor snow data assimilation at the continental scale: The value of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment terrestrial water storage information, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D10104, DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013035. (14 pages) [pdf]

Wei, X., A.N. Hahmann, R.E. Dickinson, Z.-L. Yang, X. Zeng, K.J. Schaudt, C.B. Schaaf and N. Strugnell, 2001: Comparison of the albedo computed by land surface models and evaluation against remotely sensed data, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 106 (D18), 20687-20702. [pdf]

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, Z.-L. Yang, C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, A. Strahler, R.B. Myneni, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2003: Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 108 (D15), 4488, doi:10.1029/2002JD003326. [pdf]

Snow Modeling

Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Robock and K.Y. Vinnikov, 1997: Validation of the snow sub-model of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian snow cover and meteorological observational data,Journal of Climate, 10, 353-373. [pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A.N. Hahmann, G.-Y. Niu, M. Shaikh, X. Gao, R.C. Bales, S. Sorooshian, and J.M. Jin, 1999: Simulation of snow mass and extent in global climate models, Hydrological Processes, 13 (12-13), 2097-2113.[pdf]

Yang, Z.-L., 2008: Description of recent snow models, in Snow and Climate, Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 129-136 [Snow Modelers Internet Platform]

Brun, E., Z.-L. Yang, R. Essery, and J. Cohen, 2008: Snow-cover parameterization and modeling, in Snow and Climate,Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-180.

Jin, J.M., X. Gao, S. Sorooshian, Z.-L. Yang, R.C. Bales, R.E. Dickinson, S.-F. Sun and G.-X. Wu, 1999: One-dimensional snow water and energy balance model for vegetated surfaces, Hydrological Processes, 13, Issue 14-15, 2467-2482. [pdf]

Jin, J.M., X. Gao, Z.-L. Yang, R.C. Bales, S. Sorooshian, R.E. Dickinson, S.-F. Sun and G.-X. Wu, 1999: Comparative analyses of physically based snowmelt models for climate simulations. Journal of Climate,, 12, 2643-2657. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y. and Z.-L. Yang, 2006: Effects of frozen soil on snowmelt runoff and soil water storage at a continental scale, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7 (5), 937-952. [pdf]

Niu, G.-Y., and Z.-L. Yang, 2007: An observation-based formulation of snow cover fraction and its evaluation over large North American river basins, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D21101, doi:10.1029/2007JD008674. [pdf]

*Su, H., Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and R. E. Dickinson, 2008: Enhancing the Estimation of Continental Scale Snow Water Equivalent by Assimilating MODIS Snow Cover with the Ensemble Kalman Filter, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D08120, doi:10.1029/2007JD009232. [pdf]

Flood Modeling

*Knebl, M. R., Z.-L. Yang, K. Hutchison, and D. R. Maidment, 2005: Regional scale flood modeling using NEXRAD rainfall, GIS, and HEC-HMS/RAS: A case study for the San Antonio River Basin summer 2002 storm event, Journal of Environmental Management, 75, 325-336. [pdf]

*Lowrey, M. R. K. and Z.-L. Yang, 2008: Assessing the capability of a regional-scale weather model to simulate extreme precipitation patterns and flooding in Central Texas, Weather and Forecasting, 23, 1102–1126. [pdf]

Field Observations / Modeling

Unland, H., P. Houser, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.-L. Yang, 1996: Surface flux measurement and modeling at a semi-arid Sonoran desert site, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 82, 119-153.

White, C., P.R. Houser, A.M. Arain, Z.-L. Yang, K. Syed and W.J. Shuttleworth, 1997: The aggregate description of semiarid vegetation with precipitation-generated soil moisture heterogeneity, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 1, 205-212. [pdf]

Parameter Estimation / Model Calibration

Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, W.J. Shuttleworth and M. Shaikh, 1998: Treatment of soil, vegetation and snow in land-surface models: A test of the biosphere-atmosphere transfer scheme with the HAPEX-MOBILHY, ABRACOS, and Russian data, Journal of Hydrology, 212-213, 109-127. [pdf]

Bastidas, L.A., H.V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.-L. Yang, 1999: Sensitivity analysis of a land surface scheme using multicriteria methods, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 104 (D16), 19481-19490. [pdf]

*Gulden, L.E., E. Rosero, Z.-L. Yang, T. Wagener, and G.-Y. Niu, 2008: Model performance, model robustness, and model fitness scores: A new method for identifying good land-surface models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L11404, doi:10.1029/2008GL033721. (7 pages) [pdf]

Gupta, H.V., Bastidas, L.A., S. Sorooshian, W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.-L. Yang, 1999: Parameter estimation of a land surface scheme using multicriteria methods, Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), 104 (D16), 19491-19503. [pdf]

*Rosero, E., Z.-L. Yang, L. E. Gulden, G.-Y. Niu, and D. J. Gochis, 2009: Evaluating enhanced hydrological representations in Noah-LSM over transition zones: Implications for model development, J. Hydrometeorology, 10, 600-622. DOI:10.1175/2009JHM1029.1 [pdf]

*Rosero, E., Z.-L. Yang, T. Wagener, L. E. Gulden, S. Yatheendradas, and G.-Y. Niu, 2010: Quantifying parameter sensitivity, interaction, and transferability in hydrologically enhanced versions of the Noah land surface model over transition zones during the warm season, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D03106, doi:10.1029/2009JD012035. (21 pages) [pdf]

*Rosero, E., L. E. Gulden, Z.-L. Yang, L. G. de Goncalves, G.-Y. Niu, and Y. H. Kaheil, 2011: Ensemble evaluation of hydrologically enhanced Noah-LSM: Partitioning of the water balance in high-resolution simulations over the Little Washita River Experimental Watershed, J. Hydrometeorology, 12, 45-64. [pdf]

*Su, H., Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and C. R. Wilson, 2011: Parameter estimation in ensemble based snow data assimilation: A Synthetic study, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 407-416. [pdf]

Xia, Y., Z.-L. Yang, P.L. Stoffa, C. Jackson, and M.K. Sen, 2004: Impacts of data length on optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D07101, doi:10.1029/2003JD004419. [pdf]

Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes

Henderson-Sellers, A., Z.-L. Yang and R.E. Dickinson, 1993: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74, 1335-1349. [pdf]

Sen, O.L., W.J. Shuttleworth and Z.-L. Yang, 2000: Comparative evaluation of BATS2, BATS and SiB2 with Amazon data, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1 (2), 135-153. [pdf]

Mahfouf, J.-F., C. Ciret, A. Ducharne, P. Irannejad, J. Noilhan, Y. Shao, P. Thornton, Y. Xue and Z.-L. Yang, 1996: Analysis of transpiration results from the RICE and PILPS Workshop, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 73-88. [pdf]

Wetzel, P., X. Liang, P. Irannejad, A. Boone, J. Noilhan, Y. Shao, C. Skelly, Y. Xue and Z.-L. Yang, 1996: Modeling vadose zone liquid water fluxes: Infiltration, runoff, drainage, interflow, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 57-71. [pdf]

Luo, L. F., A. Robock, K. Y. Vinnikov, C. A. Schlosser, A. G. Slater, A. Boone, H. Braden, P. Cox, P. de Rosnay, R. E. Dickinson, Y. Dai, Q. Duan, P. Etchevers, A. Henderson-Sellers, N. Gedney, Y. M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, E. Kowalczyk, K. Mitchell, O. N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, A. J. Pitman, J. Schaake, A. B. Shmakin, T. G. Smirnova, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L.Yang, and Q.-C. Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 334-351. [pdf]

Slater, A., C.A. Schlosser, C.E. Desborough, A.J. Pitman, A. Henderson-Sellers, A. Robock, K.Ya. Vinnikov, K. Mitchell, A. Boone, H. Braden, F. Chen, P.M. Cox, P. de Rosnay, R.E. Dickinson, Y.-J. Dai, Q. Duan, J. Entin, P. Etchevers, N. Gedney, Ye.M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, V. Koren, E. Kowalczyk, O.N. Nasanova, J. Noilhan, J. Shaake, A.B. Shmakin, T. Smirnova, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang, and Q. Zeng, 2001: The representation of snow in land-surface schemes: results from PILPS 2(d), Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2, 7-25. [pdf]

Schlosser, C.A., A. Slater, A. Robock, A.J. Pitman, K.Y. Vinnikov, A. Henderson-Sellers, N.A. Speranskaya, K. Mitchell, A. Boone, H. Braden, P. Cox, P. DeRosney, C.E. Desborough, Y.J. Dai, Q. Duan, J. Entin, P. Etchevers, N. Gedney, Y.M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, E. Kowalczyk, O. Nasanova, J. Noilhan, J. Polcher, A. Shmakin, T. Smirnova, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue and Z.-L. Yang, 2000: Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS Phase 2(d), Monthly Weather Review., 128 (2), 301-321. [pdf]

Pitman, A.J., A. Henderson-Sellers, C. E. Desborough, Z.-L. Yang, F. Abramopoulos, A. Boone, R. E. Dickinson, N. Gedney, R. Koster, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, J.-F. Mahfouf, J. Noilhan, J. Polcher, W. Qu, A. Robock, C. Rosenzweig, C. A. Schlosser, A. B. Shmakin, J. Smith, M. Suarez, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, E. Wood, Y. Xue, 1999: Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes, Climate Dynamics, 15 (9), 673-684. [pdf]

Liang, X., E.F. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, A. Boone, S. Chang, F. Chen, Y. Dai, C. Desborough, R. Dickinson, Q. Duan, M. Ek, Y. Gusev, F. Habets, P. Irannejad, R. Koster, O. Nasanova, J. Noilhan, J. Schaake, A. Schlosser, Y. Shao, A. Shmakin, D. Verseghy, J. Wang, K. Warrach, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang and Q. Zeng, 1998: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 2. Spatial and temporal analysis of energy fluxes, Global and Planetary Change, 19(1-4), 137-159. [pdf]

Lohmann, D., X. Liang, E.F. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier, A. Boone, S. Chang, F. Chen, Y. Dai, C. Desborough, R. Dickinson, Q. Duan, M. Ek, Y. Gusev, F. Habets, P. Irannejad, R. Koster, O. Nasanova, J. Noilhan, J. Schaake, A. Schlosser, Y. Shao, A. Shmakin, D. Verseghy, J. Wang, K. Warrach, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang and Q. Zeng, 1998: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 3. Spatial and temporal analysis of water fluxes, Global and Planetary Change, 19(1-4), 161-179. [pdf]

Qu, W., A. Henderson-Sellers, A.J. Pitman, T.H. Chen, F. Abramopoulos, A. Boone, S. Chang, F. Chen, Y. Dai, R.E. Dickinson, L. Duemenil, M. Ek, N. Gedney, Y.M. Gusev, J. Kim, R. Koster, E.A. Kowalczyk, J. Lean, D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, J.-F. Mahfouf, H.-T. Mengelkamp, K. Mitchell, O.N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, A. Robock, C. Rosenzweig, J. Schaake, C.A. Schlosser, J.-P. Schulz, A.B. Shmakin, D.L. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, E. Wood, Z.-L. Yang and Q. Zeng, 1998: Sensitivity of latent heat flux from PILPS land-surface schemes to perturbations of surface air temperature, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 55, 1909-1927. [pdf]

Wood, E.F., D.P. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, D., Lohmann, A. Boone, S. Chang, F. Chen, Y. Dai, C. Desborough, R. Dickinson, Q. Duan, M. Ek, Y. Gusev, F. Habets, P. Irannejad, R. Koster, O. Nasanova, J. Noilhan, J. Schaake, A. Schlosser, Y. Shao, A. Shmakin, D. Verseghy, J. Wang, K. Warrach, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang and Q. Zeng, 1998: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Phase-2(c) Red-Arkansas River basin experiment: 1. Experimental description and summary intercomparisons, Global and Planetary Change, 19(1-4), 115-135. [pdf]

Chen, T.H., A. Henderson-Sellers, P.C.D. Milly, A.J. Pitman, A.C.M. Beljaars, F. Abramopoulos, A. Boone, S. Chang, F. Chen, Y. Dai, C.E. Desborough, R.E. Dickinson, L. Duemenil, M. Ek, J.R. Garratt, N. Gedney, Y.M. Gusev, J. Kim, R. Koster, E.A. Kowalczyk, K. Laval, J. Lean, D. Lettenmaier, X. Liang, J.-F. Mahfouf, H.-T. Mengelkamp, K. Mitchell, O.N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, J. Polcher, A. Robock, C. Rosenzweig, J. Schaake, C.A. Schlosser, J.-P. Schulz, Y. Shao, A.B. Shmakin, D.L. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, E. Wood, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang and Q. Zeng, 1997: Cabauw experimental results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS), Journal of Climate, 10, 1194-1215. [pdf]

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