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Development and technical paper
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16 Apr 2018
Development and technical paper |
| 16 Apr 2018
| 16 Apr 2018
Modeling canopy-induced turbulence in the Earth system: a unified parameterization of turbulent exchange within plant canopies and the roughness sublayer (CLM-ml v0)
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder,
Colorado, USA 80307
Edward G. Patton
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder,
Colorado, USA 80307
Ian N. Harman
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra,
Australia
Keith W. Oleson
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder,
Colorado, USA 80307
John J. Finnigan
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra,
Australia
Yaqiong Lu
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder,
Colorado, USA 80307
Elizabeth A. Burakowski
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space,
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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Short summary
Land surface models neglect the roughness sublayer and parameterize within-canopy turbulence in an ad hoc manner. We implemented a roughness sublayer parameterization in a multilayer canopy model to test if this theory provides a tractable parameterization extending from the ground through the canopy and the roughness sublayer. The multilayer canopy improves simulations compared with the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) while also advancing the theoretical basis for surface flux parameterizations.
Land surface models neglect the roughness sublayer and parameterize within-canopy turbulence in...
