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One-dimensional snow water and energy balance model for vegetated surfaces

✍ Scribed by Jiming Jin; Xiaogang Gao; Soroosh Sorooshian; Zong-Liang Yang; Roger Bales; Robert E. Dickinson; Shu-Fen Sun; Guo-Xiong Wu

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 367 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6087
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199910)13:14/15<2467::aid-hyp861>3.0.co;2-j

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✦ Synopsis

We developed and evaluated a three-layer snow model for application in general circulation models. This onedimensional snow model has many features of the detailed physically based model SNTHERM, yet is computationally much simpler. We have also extended the point model to vegetated areas using the parameterization concepts of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme (BATS). Results of model applications for two types of vegetated ®elds Ð a short grassland in the French Alps and an old aspen forest in the southern study area of BOREAS Ð were presented. The results, on one hand, indicate the suitability of the model structure and parameter setting; on the other hand, the results explore the limitation of using `point' ®eld observations to evaluate an area model.

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