Evaluation of a land-surface scheme at Cabauw
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چکیده
We study the response of the land-surface to prescribed atmospheric forcing for 31 May 1978 at Cabauw, Netherlands, using the land-surface scheme from the Coupled Atmospheric boundary layer-Plant-Soil (CAPS) model. Results from model runs show realistic daytime surface fluxes are produced using a canopy conductance formulation derived from Cabauw data (for 1987, a different year), and un-tuned parameterizations of root density (nearuniform with depth) and soil heat flux (reduced thermal conductivity through vegetation). Sensitivity of modelcalculated surface heat fluxes to initial values of soil moisture is also examined. Results of this study provide the land-surface ‘base state’ for a coupled land–atmosphere modeling study.
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