edu.ucar.opensky::technotes:154 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T16:48:44.358017 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7ns0t8g Biosphere-atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS) Version 1e as Coupled to the NCAR Community Climate Model 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7ns0t8g https://doi.org/10.5065/D67W6959 Dickinson, R. author Henderson-Sellers, A. author Kennedy, P. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher This report describes the physical processes, current numerical parameterizations, and some of the code structure of BATSle. BATSle, a piece of software, that runs as an offline version or coupled to CCM. It includes (i) assignment of land type and soil information to each model grid square, (ii) calculation of soil, snow or sea-ice surface temperature in response to net surface heating and depending on soil or snow heat capacity and thermal conductivity, (iii) calculation of soil moisture, evaporation, and surface and groundwater runoff, (iv) specification of vegetation cover in terms of fractional ground shading and relative areas of transpiring and nontranspiring plant surfaces for different types of land-use, (v) surface albedo in terms of soil moisture, vegetation cover, and snow cover, including the shading of snow by vegetation, (vi) plant water ,budget including foliage and stem water storage, intercepted precipitation, and transpiration as limited by stomatal resistance and soil dryness, (vii) surface drag coefficients as a function of bulk Richardson number and vegetation cover, and (viii) determination of foliage temperature in response to energy-balance requirements and consequent fluxes of heat and moisture from the foliage to canopy air. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Atmospheric general circulation models Land surface models theme U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2021-09-17 revision 11.2 NASA Global Change Master Directory originator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation