Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3923-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3923-2019
Development and technical paper
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05 Sep 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 05 Sep 2019

Evaluation of leaf-level optical properties employed in land surface models

Titta Majasalmi and Ryan M. Bright

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Jul 2019) by Leena Järvi
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Aug 2019) by Leena Järvi
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Many land surface models rely on solutions derived from two-stream approximations utilizing leaf-level optical properties, many of which have not been formally reviewed or published. Using plant functional type groupings of the Community Land Model (CLM), we found large deviations between measured and CLM default near-infrared optical properties, implying that the modeled shortwave radiation budget including surface albedo may be expected to change after updating the biased parameters.