Articles | Volume 16, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5755-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5755-2023
Model description paper
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17 Oct 2023
Model description paper |  | 17 Oct 2023

Introducing a new floodplain scheme in ORCHIDEE (version 7885): validation and evaluation over the Pantanal wetlands

Anthony Schrapffer, Jan Polcher, Anna Sörensson, and Lluís Fita

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The present paper introduces a floodplain scheme for a high-resolution land surface model river routing. It was developed and evaluated over one of the world’s largest floodplains: the Pantanal in South America. This shows the impact of tropical floodplains on land surface conditions (soil moisture, temperature) and on land–atmosphere fluxes and highlights the potential impact of floodplains on land–atmosphere interactions and the importance of integrating this module in coupled simulations.
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