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Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6813-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6813-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Development and technical paper
 | 
09 Nov 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 09 Nov 2021

HydroBlocks v0.2: enabling a field-scale two-way coupling between the land surface and river networks in Earth system models

Nathaniel W. Chaney, Laura Torres-Rojas, Noemi Vergopolan, and Colby K. Fisher

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Although there have been significant advances in river routing and sub-grid heterogeneity (i.e., tiling) schemes in Earth system models over the past decades, there has yet to be a concerted effort to couple these two concepts. This paper aims to bridge this gap through the development of a two-way coupling between tiling schemes and river networks in the HydroBlocks land surface model. The scheme is implemented and tested over a 1 arc degree domain in Oklahoma, United States.
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