How much land-surface information is required to predict the seasonal variation in turbulent fluxes and surface temperatures?

Sarosh Alam Ghausi, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Yinglin Tian, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Erwin Zehe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe, Germany and Axel Kleidon, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group, Jena, Germany