Motivation

Currently, most global climate models (GCM’s) ...

• … do not have the capability of routing runoff from the land to the ocean.
• … assume runoff arrives at the ocean instantaneously, as if flow velocities were infinite (NCAR fully-coupled land-ocean-atmosphere model - NCAR CSM).

Is flow routing at a global scale worth it?

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