Research Article

A New Land Surface Hydrology within the Noah-WRF Land-Atmosphere Mesoscale Model Applied to Semiarid Environment: Evaluation over the Dantiandou Kori (Niger)

Table 2

As in Table 1 but for the surface energy budget variables: surface net radiation, Rn (W/m²); ground heat flux, G (W/m²); latent heat flux, LE (W/m²); sensible heat flux, H (W/m²).

VariablesObs ExpMean BiasRMSErEff

Rn70.12182.38CTL116.87233.4846.7598.60.940.71
PHY126.96231.8856.84101.20.950.69
H33.9860.98CTL96.42136.9762.44108.80.87
PHY92.40136.2458.42106.40.86
LE56.3579.17CTL36.5051.34 55.70.750.51
PHY50.4474.26 54.60.760.52
G2.8854.50CTL 78.62 48.20.800.22
PHY 72.55 47.10.760.25