Variable Sub-categories

General energy balance components:

This class of variables contains all model variables necessary to evaluate the energy balance calculations of each scheme.

General water balance components:

This class of variables contains all model variables necessary to evaluate the energy water calculations of each scheme.

Surface State Variables

The surface state variables allow evaluation of the radiative properties of the surface, for all land surface categories.

Subsurface State Variables

The subsurface state variables will be used to evaluate the heat storage capacity of the subsurface.

Evaporation Components

The evaporation components provide a break down of all forms of latent heat exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface.

Streamflow

The streamflow components represent the routed results of runoff calculations over all model grid cells. The total streamflow provides an integrated analysis of the performance of the land surface scheme in general, relative to regularly monitored quantities.

Cold Season Processes

These include components of more detailed representations of temperature fluxes in cold climates which may not be represented in most models.


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