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

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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

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Final revised paper (published on 12 Jul 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 28 Oct 2015)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C9340: 'the comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Nov 2015
- AC C12756: 'Revisions and Responses for:The incorporation of an organic soil layer in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model and its evaluation over a Boreal Aspen Forest L. Chen, Y. Li, F. Chen, A. Barr, M. Barlage, and B. Wan', Yanping Li, 26 Feb 2016
RC C10180: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Dec 2015
- AC C12766: 'Revisions and Responses for:The incorporation of an organic soil layer in the Noah-MP Land Surface Model and its evaluation over a Boreal Aspen Forest L. Chen, Y. Li, F. Chen, A. Barr, M. Barlage, and B. Wan', Yanping Li, 26 Feb 2016

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Yanping Li on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Mar 2016) by Leiming Zhang

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Mar 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 Mar 2016)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (30 Mar 2016) by Leiming Zhang

AR by Yanping Li on behalf of the Authors (06 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Jun 2016) by Leiming Zhang

AR by Yanping Li on behalf of the Authors (16 Jun 2016)

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.