Articles | Volume 9, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2771-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2771-2016
Model evaluation paper
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23 Aug 2016
Model evaluation paper |  | 23 Aug 2016

The impact of changing the land surface scheme in ACCESS(v1.0/1.1) on the surface climatology

Eva A. Kowalczyk, Lauren E. Stevens, Rachel M. Law, Ian N. Harman, Martin Dix, Charmaine N. Franklin, and Ying-Ping Wang

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GPCC precipitation data NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/

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Short summary
This paper compares two ACCESS model versions that differ only in their land surface scheme. Differences in the simulated present-day climate are attributed to differences in the representation of various land surface processes.