Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain
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In this paper, a method for generating daily surfaces of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and radiation over large regions of complex terrain is presented, based on the spatial convolution of a truncated Gaussian weighting filter with the set of station locations.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hydrology.The article was published on 1997-03-15 and is currently open access. It has received 1309 citations till now.read more
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RHESSys: Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System—An Object- Oriented Approach to Spatially Distributed Modeling of Carbon, Water, and Nutrient Cycling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a full description of process implementation in the most recent version of the Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System (RHESSys), a model that has been applied in a wide variety of research.
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A meteorological distribution system for high-resolution terrestrial modeling (MicroMet)
Glen E. Liston,Kelly Elder +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an intermediate-complexity, quasi-physically based, meteorological model (MicroMet) is developed to produce high-resolution (e.g., 30-m to 1-km horizontal grid increment) atmospheric forcings required to run spatially distributed terrestrial models over a wide variety of landscapes.
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Carbon storage and fluxes in ponderosa pine forests at different developmental stages
TL;DR: The authors compared carbon storage and fluxes in young and old ponderosa pine stands in Oregon, including plant and soil storage, net primary productivity, respiration fluxes, eddy flux estimates of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), and Biome-BGC simulations of fluxes.
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Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora.
Scott R. Loarie,Benjamin E. Carter,Benjamin E. Carter,Katharine Hayhoe,Sean M. McMahon,Richard L. Moe,Charles A. Knight,David D. Ackerly +7 more
TL;DR: The flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot, includes 2387 endemic plant taxa and it is projected that up to 66% will experience >80% reductions in range size within a century, comparable with other studies of fewer species or just samples of a region's endemics.
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Predictive mapping of alpine grasslands in Switzerland: Species versus community approach
TL;DR: The climatic factors used to drive the model explained a major part of the observed patterns, and information on land use was detected as a major factor that could significantly improve both the species and the community model.
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A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical model that distributes point measurements of monthly and annual precipitation to regularly spaced grid cells in midlatitude regions, using a combination of climatological and statistical concepts to analyze orographic precipitation.
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A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications I. Hydrologic balance, canopy gas exchange and primary production processes
TL;DR: In this paper, an ecosystem process model is described that calculates the carbon, water and nitrogen cycles through a forest ecosystem, which uses leaf area index (lai) to quantify the forest structure important for energy and mass exchange, and represents a key simplification for regional scale applications.
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On the relationship between incoming solar radiation and daily maximum and minimum temperature
TL;DR: In this article, a relationship between atmospheric transmittance and the daily range of air temperature is developed, where the relationship is Tt = A[1 −exp(exp(BΔTc)] where Tt is the daily total atmospherictransmittance, ΔT is the average air temperature, and A, B, and C are empirical coefficients, determined for a particular location from measured solar radiation data.