Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2259-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2259-2020
Model evaluation paper
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13 May 2020
Model evaluation paper |  | 13 May 2020

Evaluating integrated surface/subsurface permafrost thermal hydrology models in ATS (v0.88) against observations from a polygonal tundra site

Ahmad Jan, Ethan T. Coon, and Scott L. Painter

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Computer simulations are important tools for understanding the response of Arctic permafrost to a warming climate. To build confidence in an emerging class of permafrost simulators, we evaluated the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator against field observations from a frozen tundra site near Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. The 3-year simulations agree well with observations of snow depth, summer water table, soil temperature at multiple locations, and spatially averaged evaporation.
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