Land Surface Climate in the Regional Arctic System Model

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Hamman, Joseph, Nijssen, Bart, Brunke, Michael, Cassano, John, Craig, Anthony, DuVivier, Alice, Hughes, Mimi, Lettenmaier, Dennis P., Maslowski, Wieslaw, Osinski, Robert, Roberts, Andrew, Zeng, Xubin
• Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Atmospher Sci
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Merra; taiga; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621720; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0415.1

The Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) is a fully coupled, regional Earth system model applied over the pan-Arctic domain. This paper discusses the implementation of the Variable Infiltration Capacity land surface model (VIC) in RASM and evaluates the ability of RASM, version 1.0, to capture key fe...