Land surface models simulate the physical and dynamical process of the land surface. Driven by external forcing, the spatial and temporal evolution of these processes are intrinsically determined by the physical and dynamical properties, or parameters, of the land surface. Although different land surface models emphasize different aspects of these processes, thus using different sets of land surface parameters, there are a common set of land surface parameters that are being used by most land surface models. Here you can find the archive of all the land surface parameters to be used by the land surface models in LIS.

Dataset	Description	Source	Processing Info
Datasets used by all LIS land surface models
UMD Land/Sea Mask	Contains the LDAS unified land/sea mask	UMD	GLDAS
UMD Vegetation classification map	Lists the frequency with which all of the vegetation types occurs		GLDAS
Soil color	Derived from the global soils dataset of Reynolds et al, (1999).	NOAA	GLDAS
Soil clay fraction
Soil sand fraction
CLM Datasets
Canopy height look-up table	Canopy height information for each vegetation type	CLM Documentation	N/A
Vegetation classification look-up table	Lists all UMD vegetation classification		N/A
LAI	Leaf Area Index	Boston Univ	GLDAS
SAI	Stem Area Index		N/A
Noah Datasets
Vegetation look-up table	Static vegetation parameter file	Noah Documentation	N/A
Soil look-up table	NOAH soil types file		N/A
Quarterly albedo climatology	Surface Albedo fraction (snow-free)		N/A
Monthly greeness fraction climatology	Green vegetation fraction		GLDAS
Maximum snow albedo	Seasonally snow covered lands in the Northern Hemisphere.		N/A
Bottom temperature without elevation correction	Serves as the annually fixed, soil-temperature bottom-boundary condition		N/A
VIC Datasets
Vegetation look-up table	Vegetation classification used in VIC	VIC Documentation	N/A
Soil look-up table	Soil parameters for each soil type		N/A