Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1753-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-1753-2021
Model evaluation paper
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30 Mar 2021
Model evaluation paper |  | 30 Mar 2021

Assessing the simulated soil hydrothermal regime of the active layer from the Noah-MP land surface model (v1.1) in the permafrost regions of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Xiangfei Li, Tonghua Wu, Xiaodong Wu, Jie Chen, Xiaofan Zhu, Guojie Hu, Ren Li, Yongping Qiao, Cheng Yang, Junming Hao, Jie Ni, and Wensi Ma

Data sets

The forcing data, soil temperature and liquid water content at the TGL and BLH sites Xiangfei Li https://doi.org/10.17632/h7hbd69nnr.2

Model code and software

Modified Noah-MP for https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-142 Xiangfei Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4555449

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Short summary
In this study, an ensemble simulation of 55296 scheme combinations for at a typical permafrost site on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) was conducted. The general performance of the Noah-MP model for snow cover events (SCEs), soil temperature (ST) and soil liquid water content (SLW) was assessed, and the sensitivities of parameterization schemes at different depths were investigated. We show that Noah-MP tends to overestimate SCEs and underestimate ST and topsoil SLW on the QTP.