Canadian Land Surface Scheme

The Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) is a land surface parametrization scheme for use in large scale climate models. It is a state-of-the-art model, using physically based equations to simulate the energy and water balances of vegetation, snow and soil. CLASS is being developed in a research project led by D. Verseghy at the Canadian Atmospheric Environment Service.

See also

• CCCma - CLASS is used in CGCM3.1

References

• D. L. Verseghy, "The Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS): its history and future," Atmosphere-Ocean, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-13, 2000.
• D. L. Verseghy, "CLASS--A Canadian Land Surface Scheme for GCMS: I. Soil Model," International Journal of Climatology IJCLEU, vol. p 111-133, p. 44, 1991.
• D. L. Verseghy, N. A. McFarlane, and M. Lazare, "CLASS-A Canadian land surface scheme for GCMS, II. Vegetation model and coupled runs," Int. J. Climatol., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 347-370, 1993.

Further reading

• Seiler, Christian; Melton, Joe R.; Arora, Vivek K.; Wang, Libo (2021). "CLASSIC v1.0: the open-source community successor to the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) – Part 2: Global benchmarking". Geoscientific Model Development. 14 (5): 2371–2417. doi:10.5194/gmd-14-2371-2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• Curasi, Salvatore R.; Melton, Joe R.; Humphreys, Elyn R.; Wang, Libo; Seiler, Christian; Cannon, Alex J.; Chan, Ed; Qu, Bo (2023). "Evaluating the Performance of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) Tailored to the Pan-Canadian Domain". Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15. doi:10.1029/2022MS003480.
• Sun, Shanshan; Verseghy, Diana (December 2019). "Introducing water-stressed shrubland into the Canadian Land Surface Scheme". Journal of Hydrology. 579. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124157.

External links

• Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) – via Government of Canada