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Quantifying the prediction accuracy of a 1-D SVAT model at a range of ecosystems in the USA and Australia: evidence towards its use as a tool to study Earth's system interactions
G. P. Petropoulos
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Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
M. R. North
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
G. Ireland
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
P. K. Srivastava
Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
D. V. Rendall
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
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The performance of the SimSphere SVAT model was comprehensively validated against in situ measurements from selected US and Australian sites of the FLUXNET monitoring network for 2011. The results obtained confirmed the correspondence of the model structure to the real conditions for which it was parameterised, evidencing its ability to reproduce outputs akin to the in situ reference data.To our knowledge this is the first comprehensive validation of SimSphere for Australia and the USA.
The performance of the SimSphere SVAT model was comprehensively validated against in situ...
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