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Model description paper |
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Introducing a new floodplain scheme in ORCHIDEE (version 7885): validation and evaluation over the Pantanal wetlands
Anthony Schrapffer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Franco-Argentino para el Estudio del Clima y sus Impactos (UMI 3351 IFAECI), CNRS – IRD – CONICET – UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
EthiFinance, 11 Avenue Delcassé 75008, Paris, France
Jan Polcher
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), IPSL, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Anna Sörensson
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Franco-Argentino para el Estudio del Clima y sus Impactos (UMI 3351 IFAECI), CNRS – IRD – CONICET – UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lluís Fita
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Franco-Argentino para el Estudio del Clima y sus Impactos (UMI 3351 IFAECI), CNRS – IRD – CONICET – UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Short summary
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.
The present paper introduces a floodplain scheme for a high-resolution land surface model river...
