6. One paragraph description of your model (e.g. abstract from report or
   paper);

BAIM has two vegetation layers and three soil layers, and predicts the        
temperature of each layer and moisture stored for each layer. In the 
presence of snow on the ground, the snow layer is divided into a maximum 
of three layers, and the temperature and the amount of snow and water 
stored in each layer are predicted. BAIM can estimate not only the 
energy fluxes but also the carbon dioxide flux between the land surface 
ecosystem and the atmosphere. The photosynthesis processes for C3 plants 
and C4 plants are adopted in the model. BAIM can also predict the 
accumulation and melting of snow on the ground, and the freezing and 
melting of water in the soil.

50. Please provide references relevant to the model description and use.

Mabuchi,K.,Y.Sato,H.Kida,N.Saigusa and T.Oikawa,1997:
A Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction Model (BAIM) and its 
primary verifications using grassland data.
Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics Vol.47,No.3. 


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  Kazuo MABUCHI
  Climate Research Department
  Meteorological Research Institute
  Nagamine 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
  phone: +81-298-53-8592
  fax  : +81-298-55-2552
  e-mail: kmabuchi@mri-jma.go.jp
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