Articles | Volume 20, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4689-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4689-2016
Research article
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24 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 24 Nov 2016

Advantages of analytically computing the ground heat flux in land surface models

Valentijn R. N. Pauwels and Edoardo Daly

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AGRISAR – Airborne SAR and Optic Campaigns T. Börner http://www.dlr.de/hr/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2511/3772_read-5673/

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We demonstrate that the classical approach to solve the surface energy balance equation in land surface models has its issues, and we propose an improved method.