Impact of Using Near Real-Time Green Vegetation Fraction in Noah Land Surface Model of NOAA NCEP on Numerical Weather Predictions

Figure 7

Forecasts of 2 m surface air temperature from WRF runs (with climatology and NRT GVF) along with in situ observations for Day 1 forecasts (a) and Day 2 forecasts (b), averaged from validation sites over LMV subregion.

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