Participants: (last updated: Jan. 10, 2013) Page Contents: Land Surface Models Hydrological Models Databases for input or evaluation Land surface models: Note, the table below is not yet final... Contact Model Acronym Institute Location Aaron Boone, Augusto Getirana and Sebastien Lafont ISBA CNRM-GAME, Meteo-France & NASA-GSFC Toulouse, France & Greenbelt, MD, USA Jerome Demarty, Bernard Cappelaere, Cécile Velluet ISBA HSM Montpellier, France Manula Grippa, Laurent Kergoat, Eric Mougin STEP GET Toulouse, France Agnes Ducharne & Simon Gascoin CLSM SYSYPHE & CESBIO Paris, France and Toulouse, France Jan Polcher ORCHIDEE LMD Paris, France Catherine Ottlé SETHYS LSCE Gif-sur-Yvette, France Fabienne Maignan ORCHIDEE LSCE Gif-sur-Yvette, France Diana Verseghy & Ed Chan CLASS Climate Research Division, Environment Canada Ontario, Canada Phil Harris & Chris Taylor JULES CEH & UKMO Wallingford, UK Gianpaolo Balsamo CHTESSEL ECMWF Reading, UK Gerd Schaedler Veg3d Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Sujay Kumar, Karen Mohr & Randy Koster MOSAIC (LIS) NASA-GSFC Greenbelt, MD, USA Sujay Kumar, Karen Mohr & ... VIC (LIS) NASA-GSFC & ... Greenbelt, MD, USA Sujay Kumar, Karen Mohr & .... Cable (LIS) NASA-GSFC & ... Greenbelt, MD, USA Sujay Kumar, Karen Mohr & C. Blankenship, B. Crosson SHEELS (LIS) NASA-GSFC & NASA-MSFC, National Space Science and Technology Center Greenbelt, MD & Huntsville, AL, USA Sujay Kumar, Karen Mohr & Mike Ek NOAH (LIS) NASA-GSFC & NCEP Greenbelt, MD & , Camp Springs, MD , USA Olga Nasonova and & Yeugeniy Gusev SWAP Institute of Water Problems Moscow, Russia Kenji Tanaka & Kotsuki Shunji SiBUC Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto Univ. Gokasho, Japan A. Shmakin, Vasiliy Sokratov & Dmitrii Turkov SPONSOR Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia Hyungjun Kim & Xiaogang He HiGW-MAT (MATSIRO) Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Min-Hui Lo CLM Department of Atmospheric Sciences at National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan Yorozu Kazuaki SiBUC Hydrology and Water Resources Research Laboratory, Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan Nicolas Boulain SPA TERG, Plant Functional Biology & Climate Change Cluster School of the Environment University of Technology Sydney, Australia Paul Dirmeyer & Zhichang Guo SSIB Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), Institute of Global Environment and Society Calverton, MD, USA Sarith Mahanama, Randy Koster & Sujay Kumar CLSM Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), NASA/GSFC Greenbelt, MD, USA Hydrological models: Note, the table below is not yet final... Contact Model Acronym Institute Location C. Peugeot TOP-AMMA HSM Montpellier, France A. Getirana, A. Boone HyMAP (LSM routing) LEGOS, CNRM-GAME, NASA-GSFC Greenbelt, MD, USA, Toulouse, France S. Giertz UHP-HRU Department of Geography, University of Bonn Bonn, Germany A. Bossa & H. Busche SWAT Department of Geography, University of Bonn Bonn, Germany P. Yeh, K. Takeuchi, S. Hishinuma & J. Magome BTOP International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) -UNESCO Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan T. Vichel & T. Pellarin DHVSM LTHE (Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement) Grenoble, France Databases for input or evaluation Note, the table below is under construction (not final/complete)... Contact Database/Product Institute Location Martha Anderson ALEXI USDA Beltsville, MD, USA Jean-Louis Roujean & Armel Kaptue ECOCLIMAP2 CNRM-GAME, Meteo-France Toulouse, France

Here we list groups who wish to compare alternate approaches (to land surface models) for estimating ET (Evapotranspiration) and/or surface fluxes, to LSM and satellite-based estimates.

Alternate Approaches to ET estimation