Publications

Validation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System Retrospective Forcing Over the Southern Great Plains
Lifeng Luo, Alan Robock, Kenneth E. Mitchell, Paul R. Houser, Eric F. Wood, John C. Schaake, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, Fenghua Wen, Justin Sheffield, Qingyun Duan, Wayne Higgins, Rachel T. Pinker, and J. Dan Tarpley

Draft (All the odd number versions are after my modification and even number versions are after Alan's modification.)

Version 1 in MS word
Version 2 in MS word
Version 3 in MS word
Version 4 in MS word
Version 5 in MS word
Version 7 with figures in MS word | PDF
Version 11 with figures in MS word | PDF
Submitted version in MS word | PDF

List of Figures

• Figure 1. Station map. This might end up in the validation paper.
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• Figure 2. Scatter plot of 6 meteorological variables at one ARM/CART station.
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• Figure 3. Monthly mean diurnal cycle of solar radiation and total solar radiation difference.
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• Figure 4. Scatter plot of the precipitation difference at one station at different timescale.
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• Figure 5. Precipitation comparisons. a) Score skills b) Monthly mean precipitation rate c) Spatial distribution of the difference.
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• Figure 6. Top 40 cm soil moisture from two simulations and their differnece
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• Figure 7. Difference in model simulations.
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• Figure 8. Difference in model simulations in a short period where the two simulations are very different because of a rain event. The difference gradually decreases as evapotranspiration goes on.
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