Relative Importance of Subgrid Scale Heterogeneity of Land Surface Properties and Atmospheric Forcing to Improve Earth System Model Simulations

Teklu K Tesfa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Michael Brunke, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Zhuoran Duan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hydrology, Richland, WA, United States