Articles | Volume 16, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5131-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5131-2023
Model description paper
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08 Sep 2023
Model description paper |  | 08 Sep 2023

Modernizing the open-source community Noah with multi-parameterization options (Noah-MP) land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability

Cenlin He, Prasanth Valayamkunnath, Michael Barlage, Fei Chen, David Gochis, Ryan Cabell, Tim Schneider, Roy Rasmussen, Guo-Yue Niu, Zong-Liang Yang, Dev Niyogi, and Michael Ek

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Cited articles

Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., He, C., Burns, S. P., and Chen, F.: Implementation and Evaluation of a Unified Turbulence Parameterization Throughout the Canopy and Roughness Sublayer in Noah-MP Snow Simulations, J. Adv. Model Earth Sy., 13, e2021MS002665, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002665, 2021. 
Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., He, C., and Chen, F.: Winter and spring climate explains a large portion of interannual variability and trend in western U.S. summer fire burned area, Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 054030, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6886, 2022a. 
Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., He, C., McKenzie Skiles, S., Chen, F., and Gochis, D.: Evaluation and Optimization of Snow Albedo Scheme in Noah-MP Land Surface Model Using In Situ Spectral Observations in the Colorado Rockies, J. Adv. Model Earth Sy., 14, e2022MS003141m https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003141, 2022b. 
Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., He, C., Chen, F., Ikeda, K., Schneider, T., and Rasmussen, R.: High resolution forecasting of summer drought in the western United States, Water Resour. Res., 59, e2022WR033734, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033734, 2023a. 
Abolafia-Rosenzweig, R., He, C., Chen, F., Zhang, Y., Dugger, A., Livneh, B., and Gochis, D.: Evaluating Noah-MP simulated runoff and snowpack in heavily burned Pacific-Northwest snow-dominated catchments, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., in review, 2023b. 
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Noah-MP is one of the most widely used open-source community land surface models in the world, designed for applications ranging from uncoupled land surface and ecohydrological process studies to coupled numerical weather prediction and decadal climate simulations. To facilitate model developments and applications, we modernize Noah-MP by adopting modern Fortran code and data structures and standards, which substantially enhance model modularity, interoperability, and applicability.
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