Food for thought -- additional algorithms

[jhamman]

Below is a list of references that may be relevant to the extensions possible with this package.

• Flerchinger, G. N., W. Xaio, D. Marks, T. J. Sauer, and Q. Yu (2009), Comparison of algorithms for incoming atmospheric long-wave radiation, Water Resour. Res., 45, W03423, doi:10.1029/2008WR007394.

[klapo]

Mark Raleigh and I have spent some time looking at the ensemble of methods in that paper. One of our questions we had when forcing a LSM is whether to use all methods or only selecting the best methods.

Is one of the goals of MTCLIM to provide a full ensemble of uncertainty? Extensibility in options? Best guess?

[klapo]

Ted Bohn's 2013 paper is also very relevant here:

Bohn, T. J., B. Livneh, J. W. Oyler, S. W. Running, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier (2013), Global evaluation of MTCLIM and related algorithms for forcing of ecological and hydrological models, Agric. For. Meteorol., 176, 38–49, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.03.003.

In Appendix A they explore using a number of all-sky/clear-sky combinations and compare them to the BSRN sites.