Publications by authors named "Lauren E Stevens"
J Hydrometeorol
June 2016
Article Synopsis
- The PLUMBER project highlighted the importance of setting performance targets in comparing land surface models, revealing that these models often perform worse than simpler empirical models for predicting turbulent energy fluxes.
- All land surface models struggled more with predicting sensible and latent heat fluxes compared to linear regressions based on various atmospheric conditions, such as downward shortwave radiation, air temperature, and humidity.
- The study investigated factors influencing these outcomes, ruling out energy conservation issues in observational data, and determined that the challenges stem from how models partition sensible and latent heat, suggesting this problem exists across many models and indicating directions for future research.
