The incorporation of an organic soil layer in the Noah-MP land surface model
and its evaluation over a boreal aspen forest

Chen, Liang; Li, Yanping; Chen, Fei; Barr, Alan; Barlage, Michael; Wan, Bingcheng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8375-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8375-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8375-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 13

Research article

|

12 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 12 Jul 2016

The incorporation of an organic soil layer in the Noah-MP land surface model and its evaluation over a boreal aspen forest

Liang Chen, Yanping Li, Fei Chen, Alan Barr, Michael Barlage, and Bingcheng Wan

Data sets

FLUXNET data ORNL DAAC ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/fluxnet/fluxnet_canada/data/SK-OldAspen/

Short summary

This work is the first time that Noah-MP is used to investigate the impact of parameterizing organic soil at a boreal forest site. Including an organic soil parameterization significantly improved performance of the model in surface energy and hydrology simulations due to the lower thermal conductivity and greater porosity of the organic soil. It substantially modified the partition between direct soil evaporation and vegetation transpiration in the simulation.