Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

Thirty-three snowpack models of varying complexity and purpose were evaluated across a wide range of hydrometeorological and forest canopy conditions at five Northern Hemisphere locations, for up t ...

H. Douville | Y. Xue | T. Vesala | P. Bartlett | D. Lettenmaier | R. Stöckli | E. Martin | E. Dutra | Y. Hirabayashi | T. Yamazaki | V. Koren | A. Barr | T. Smirnova | K. Elder | P. Viterbo | R. Essery | R. Essery | J. Pomeroy | N. Rutter | A. Goodbody | K. Xia | K. Takata | P. Samuelsson | N. Altimir | I. Baker | A. Wiltshire | R. Hellström | A. Boone | D. Gustafsson | C. Luce | M. Stähli | J. Pumpanen | K. Andreadis | T. Jonas | G. Schädler | Weiping Li | Kenji Tanaka | Huiping Deng | U. Strasser | A. Gelfan | M. Sandells | Xia Feng | H. Douville | Y. Gusev | O. Nasonova | Kun Xia | A. Shmakin | Kazuyoshi Suzuki | Kazuyoshi Suzuki | H. Su | R. Pyles | C. Ellis | T. Hirota | Anna Kuragina | E. Thompson | V. Koren | A. Barr | Kenji Tanaka | Weiping Li | Anna Kuragina | Charles H. Luce | R. Pyles | Erin Thompson | Timo Vesala | Aaron Boone | Victor Koren | Tatiana G. Smirnova | Ulrich Strasser | Takeshi Yamazaki | Nick Rutter | John Pomeroy | Ian Baker | Alan Barr | Paul Bartlett | Huiping Deng | Hervé Douville | Emanuel Dutra | Kelly Elder | Chad Ellis | Xia Feng | David Gustafsson | Rob Hellström | Yukiko Hirabayashi | Tomoyoshi Hirota | Tobias Jonas | Wei-Ping Li | Charlie Luce | Eric Martin | Gerd Schädler | Kenji Tanaka | Andrew Wiltshire | Kun Xia | Yongkang Xue | Huiping Deng | D. Lettenmaier | Yongkang Xue | R. Essery | J. Pomeroy | Ian Baker | Huiping Deng | Hervé Douville | Kelly Elder | Xia Feng | Alexander Gelfan | David Gustafsson | Rob Hellström | Y. Hirabayashi | Tomoyoshi Hirota | Tobias Jonas | Victor Koren | Anna Kuragina | Wei-Ping Li | Charlie Luce | Eric Martin | Kumiko Takata | Kenji Tanaka | Erin Thompson | Andrew Wiltshire | Kun Xia | Ian Baker

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